Gladiators battling lions for the glory of being in the arena were a popular spectacle of life in ancient Rome. At least, we ...

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

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

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Returning to the Colosseum for a new, epic journey in ancient Rome. From May 11, “Gladiator II” by Ridley Scott, a sequel to ...

Images of sparring gladiators, sometimes with one another or with beasts, memorialized in ancient mosaics and pottery recall the Roman Colosseum, “which would have been the classical world’s ...

Gladiators in Roman York were pitted against ... while reliefs and mosaics in the Colosseum show fighters battling large cats. But there has never been any bone evidence to verify the practice.