For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

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 ago. The lifelike image by forensic artist Hew Morrison used the skull of a ...