It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal ...

The discovery illustrates how gladiatorial spectacles, often presented by emperors and other luminaries, that included wild ...

Julius Caesar's two invasions of Britain took place in 55 and 54 BC. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it evolved into Verulamium, one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. The town ...

A chunk of Roman masonry, thought to be the last remaining original piece of the Roman fort of Mamucium, lies behind a metal ...

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

Alice meets local families who are digging beneath the spectacular Gothic town hall to uncover the remains of terraces and ...

By the 18th century, Llandovery had become a hub for Welsh drovers. These hard-grafting men moved herds of cattle across vast ...

Llandovery is a charming market town in Carmarthenshire, Wales, that's packed with history and has a surprising claim to fame - here's why you should visit.

When we tell Teresa about the remains being branded the ‘least interesting’ in Britain ... wasn't an important place in Roman times, my home town Lancaster had more going for it.