Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of combat depicted in ancient texts, ...

Travel through a tapestry of history and nature, where the Via Egnatia unfolds its secrets across four countries, inviting ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

This incredible discovery was unique and rare because the find went against everything known about a critical Roman ritual.

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...