Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city ...

Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in ... to find physical evidence of such combat in the form of Roman gladiators' remains," especially for "something seemingly ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...