A Roman ring from as far back as 200 A.D. was found in a Lincolnshire ditch. Archaeologists say that the oddly shaped, ...

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

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

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

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

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed ... would have had a devastating impact on the productivity of Roman Britain’s most important agricultural region,” said ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena battles.

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. 32,415 people played ...

The beloved tree’s demise sent shock waves through the U.K. in 2023. The nation is still transfixed as two men accused of ...

An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a scene in which a specialist gladiator called a venatore confronts a lion, is on display at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, in December 2011 ...