Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

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

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

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

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...