A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton, discovered two ...

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

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

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 physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire.

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...