Gladiators battling lions for the glory of being in the arena were a popular spectacle of life in ancient Rome. At least, we ...

(Chariot racing was the Formula 1 of ancient Rome.) Just like sports ... she wasn’t a fighter. “No gladiator is depicted with so little protective clothing,” says historian Kathleen Coleman.

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Travel back a couple thousands of centuries earlier to ancient ... and Roman games as well as Roman theater and other forms of entertainment. Not anyone could sign up to be a gladiator: as with ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

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This tiny Roman ... profession, gladiators could become huge celebrities.” McIntosh notes that there has always been a fascination—and even “sex appeal”—connected to the ancient fighters.

Researchers have identified bite marks, most likely from a lion, on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators in England. This may not seem ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

For a modern audience, it’s tempting to valourise the Roman gladiator – strong, brave, fierce – as a masculine ideal. Indeed, Ancient Rome has become for many young men an exemplar of a ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. 33,714 people played ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...