Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

Remains of more than 1,500 people – including a possible king and the first recorded case of triplets anywhere in the world – are held ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

It could very well be the biggest sporting event ever held inside the walls of the Vatican. The Giro d’Italia will pay homage ...

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

The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

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 ...

What time did Pope Francis' funeral start? Pope Francis's funeral began shortly after 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern, 1 a ...

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 ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.

The findings, published in the Journal of Science and Medical Research PLoS One this week, represent the “first physical ...

A lion's bite has confirmed the death of a gladiator in an ancient Roman arena - revealing a brutal spectacle far beyond the Colosseum. Archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of ...