Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or wild animals to entertain ...

You don't have to be one of those people who can't go a single day without thinking about the Roman Empire to know about the ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

"Young Lion Resting" is among dozens of Dutch Golden Age artworks from the Leiden Collection that are now on view at the ...

As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s thigh bone. Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in ...

Hunt scenes recreated in the arena put gladiators up against bears, bulls, stags, wild boars, and some more exotic species such as lions, leopards, tigers, and even elephants. These spectacles ...