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

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

A forensic artist has recreated the face of the Roman gladiator who was mauled by a lion in York. Last week, scientists ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

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

meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator show. While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs.

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

A groundbreaking study by an international team of archaeologists and osteologists has presented compelling skeletal evidence ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...