A Roman thought to be a gladiator ... big cats have been immortalised in art and film, and the possibility that this type of combat caused the man’s death is one of the most intriguing aspects ...

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 ...

Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork ... A new study sheds light on the story of a young man, likely between the ages of 26 and 35, discovered ...

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 ...