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

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

The British Museum has seen many architectural changes over its ... up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Here lie the greatest ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

The ancient theater at Tlos in Asia Minor is almost fully restored to its former glory and expected to host performances ...

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A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

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