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

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

You don't have to be one of those people who can't go a single day without thinking about the Roman Empire to know about the ...

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

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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

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

Analysis of rocks from Iceland indicates that extreme climate possibly led to the wipeout of the Western Roman Empire.

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