A lion's bite has confirmed the death of a gladiator in an ancient Roman arena - revealing a brutal spectacle far beyond the Colosseum. Archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one of the greatest capitals of the ancient ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

Situated outside of Charlottesville, Thistlerock Mead Co. has built a sustainable ecosystem around the drink—from flower to ...

HarperCollins, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-00-870042-3 More than any other ancient civilization, the Roman Empire continues to inform modern understandings of government, according to this ardent ...

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Roman Empire city builder Citadelum just got a lot bigger with a substantive overhaul from developer Abylight. The historical strategy game has launched its 2.0 ‘Julius’ update, a big, free ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a team of archaeologists has just recreated one. They plan to test the weapon on replica ...