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

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, ...

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

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

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

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.

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

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

A large necropolis discovered in an ancient oasis provides a missing piece to the archaeological puzzle of the Iron Age, officials said. Screengrab from the United Arab Emirates' Department of Culture ...