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

This incredible discovery was unique and rare because the find went against everything known about a critical Roman ritual.

The skeleton was discovered 20 years ago, in an excavation spurred by a couple hoping to renovate the yard of their home in the English ... was an outpost of the Roman Empire.

But the Roman empire said, no, we don’t play that ... Greeks, Jews, Romans — rich and poor — all worshipped together in homes ...

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

Beyond its beautiful beaches and rugged cliffs, the Algarve is home to an exceptional ancient heritage. Remarkably ...

The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

“My heart was racing,” he said, “I just popped it in my pocket and went straight back home. In metal detecting ... the first civil war of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.

It is possible the remains of other Romano-British churches have been found at sites, including St Albans, Hertfordshire, and ...

Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight is streaming from April 30 and is the latest adaptation of the beloved French comic book ...

He describes reading Cato’s De agri cultura, which was to the gentlemanly farmer of the Roman Empire what Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was to nature lovers in the 19th century. He hunted boar ...

An 86-year-old pensioner has embarked on a 73-mile (117km) wheelchair challenge in support of his wife. Wheelchair-user ...