New research suggests a skeleton which belonged to a gladiator was mauled by a lion or another big cat during combat.

This is a man who died 1,800 years ago in the territory now occupied by York, where it is believed there was an amphitheater. He was found in 2010 with 81 other bodies in a cemetery from the Roman era ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire ... between 540 and 800 AD. This period of intense ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district ... dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in ...