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

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, ...

A new study has revealed that Thetford in East Anglia stayed Pagan much longer than historians once believed. Jewelry from a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest suggests that Pagan practices ...

The discovery of a young man’s remains in a gladiator graveyard in York, England, has shed new light on the brutal history of Roman Britain. Buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago, the man’s pelvis ...

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

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton, discovered two ...

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

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

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