Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

After raising red flags with his administration’s plans to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad, Donald Trump is reopening ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

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

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Researchers say the man’s spinal damage, lung inflammation, and lion bite offer a rare glimpse into the brutal reality of ...

In our system, prisoners cannot be mocked or manhandled, or cruelly killed. None of this was true in ancient Roman Judaea. The Roman authorities ... He further said, “An empire is a despotism, and an ...

A majestic sycamore tree that once sat symmetrically between two hills along Hadrian's Wall was mysteriously felled more than ...