A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

Dorset Police were called to a wooded area in Bournemouth this morning, where they discovered human remains. They are now ...

DNA profiling and forensic genetic genealogy may help investigators find the name of a man found in a South Knoxville quarry.

Every year, it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people across the United States are reported missing. When a person ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

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

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

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

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists.