Research on Roman women looks mainly at clothes, hairstyles, and jewellery, rather than conflict, disease, and financial ...

Security experts say the operation to secure Pope Francis' funeral will be anything but uncomplicated and straightforward.

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

In a nutshell Tree-ring data shows southern Britain endured three back-to-back droughts from 364 to 366 CE, likely triggering ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

From nettle eating contests to bog snorkelling, we’ve picked out some bizarre and even downright baffling traditions which ...

Researchers Stunned to Find First Compelling Skeletal Evidence of a Gladiator Bitten by a Lion In the past, experts have ...

Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth ...

Thousands of people poured into St. Peter's Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in ...