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 ...

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.

Bite marks on the pelvis of a man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain ... and other animals are frequently described in Roman art and texts. But despite those accounts and the hundreds of ...

It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to ... But you have to wonder how much the average man even knows about the Roman Empire. They didn’t really fight sharks in the Colosseum.

Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once adorned the stately residence. The Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

“What we see in art might be considered to be ... While this was a funeral rite for some in the Roman period, the researchers think the man was decapitated as a mercy killing after the ...