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

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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Nearly 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans enjoyed a variety of snacks when attending events at the Colosseum. Recent ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube ...

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...