A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

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

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

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

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

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...

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

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.