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Commodus, The Unhinged Roman Emperor Who Went Mad With PowerFrom 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...
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Lion vs gladiator: 1,800-year-old teeth marks reveal brutal Roman fighting customsThe skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.
"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.
Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.
Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...
A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks ...
A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...
The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.
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