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

Archaeologists say an "exciting analysis" has revealed that a skeleton from a Roman gladiator cemetery was mauled by a lion ...

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

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

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

Images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery for hundreds of years. However, this is the first convincing skeletal evidence from the Roman Empire of bite ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

Bite marks found on a skeleton in a Roman cemetery in York have provided the first archaeological evidence of an epic battle between a gladiator and a lion.

A groundbreaking study involving our Department of Archaeology has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal ...

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