Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

A lion's bite has confirmed the death of a gladiator in an ancient Roman arena - revealing a brutal spectacle far beyond the Colosseum. Archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of ...

Scientists have determined that bite marks on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for gladiators ...

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‘One-on-one human battles in Colosseum-type settings were a form ... The skeleton is a centrepiece in the Life in Death in Roman Eboracum exhibition at DIG: An Archaeological Adventure in ...

The man had been on holiday in Rome with family and friends and had visited several landmarks. The Colosseum’s remaining 31 lower arches, once entrances to arena seating, are blocked off by iron ...

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

and how how they too had to defend themselves from the threat of death. "We often have a mental image of these combats occurring at the grand surroundings of the Colosseum in Rome, but these ...

The tourist climbed up one of the Colosseum's railings but slipped and fell onto a sharp metal spike - which pierced his spine, leaving him dangling from the fence screaming until he fell unconscious ...

and how how they too had to defend themselves from the threat of death. “We often have a mental image of these combats occurring at the grand surroundings of the Colosseum in Rome, but these ...

According to researchers, he may have been a Bestiarius, a type of gladiator who fought animals in the arena ... themselves from the threat of death.” Although Roman gladiator events are often ...