1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

A Roman gladiator uncovered in York, England, shows physical evidence of bite marks, indicating he may have been killed by a lion. The paper’s lead author, Tim Thompson, discusses the findings in this ...

Lions, tigers, and bears. These, among many other exotic animals, are the beasts with which gladiators did battle in amphitheaters across the Roman empire. It’s a spectacle that has long captured the ...

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Early gladiator fights began in the 3rd century B.C. as ritual blood offerings to the spirits of recently departed nobles. That changed around 27 B.C. when Augustus took power in Rome, says Michael J.

A groundbreaking study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim attacked ...

A Roman oil lamp shows two female gladiators fighting like men—strong visual proof women fought. An ordinary Roman oil lamp shows two gladiators with unmistakably female features, fighting in the same ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion. Bite marks found on a skeleton ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages ...

Gladiator (2000) opens in a muddy Germanic forest and ends in a Roman arena, and the two hours in between are packed with ...