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

Crowds pour in to St. Peter's Basilica to pay final respects Procession with cardinals and Latin chants Trump and dozens of ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

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

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

(Reuters) -In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, ...

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

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

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

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