Chestnut trees reveal the lasting impact of the Roman Empire on Europe’s landscape, showing how Romans shaped forestry across ...

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.

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

Is the Roman Empire on your mind? If so, France should be on your list of must-visit destinations! Having been inhabited by ...

And according to a study published April 23 in the journal PLOS One, the skeleton displays the first-ever evidence of human-animal combat in Europe during the Roman Empire. Gladiator combat is a ...

The suspense builds up as the world awaits the new pope. Cardinals from 90 countries cast their votes in the same manner, relatively unchanged for nearly 800 years.

In the sixth century AD, three massive ... out sunlight for 200-300 years, causing a drop in global temperatures that exacerbated the problems that the faltering Roman Empire already faced.

Prior research has shown that the Earth's northern hemisphere underwent a chilly spell starting around 540 AD due to the eruption ... the final collapse of the Roman Empire. In this new effort ...