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

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

A Romanian man discovered nearly 1,500 ancient silver coins — or denarii — while on a hike with his metal detector in a field ...

Gladiators fighting lions is among the more enduring images of the arenas of ancient ... Eboracum was home to the 6th Legion of the Roman Empire, which had several soldiers who came from North ...

Images of gladiators being mauled by lions ... about the importance and transport of exotic animals across the Roman Empire." The study, published in the journal PLOS One, was led by Tim Thompson ...

With a rich and turbulent history, Tunis is flush with incredible protected ruins, bustling souks and beautiful coastal ...

A groundbreaking study by an international team of archaeologists and osteologists has presented compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim attacked by a large carnivorous animal, likely within ...

While images of gladiators being ... a vital new dimension to our knowledge of Roman Britain, reinforcing the region's deep connection to the empire's entertainment traditions.

There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local ...

"I'm going to paint a slightly grim image of what may have happened to ... York paints a picture of just how far and wide the Roman Empire — and, with it, "the darker sides of Roman culture ...

Images of these spectacles survive to the present ... “Here we have physical evidence for the spectacle of the Roman Empire and the dangerous gladiatorial combat on show. This provides new ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, according to a new study.