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 ...

“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 ...

A survey tracing the city'ss greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures ...

But while there's plenty of Roman writing and art about gladiators ... used 3D scanning to look closely at one of the skeletons, a man who lived between AD 200 — 300. The man had been ...

The Roman skeleton is thought to ... 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 ...

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.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For ...

The 2,200-year-old statue of a man ... Museum of Art. The announcement comes on the heels of an agreement with Turkey on another statue earlier this month. An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue ...