Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

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.

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

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 ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...