A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, ...

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

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

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 ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

Research on Roman women looks mainly at clothes, hairstyles, and jewellery, rather than conflict, disease, and financial ...

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

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

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