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

For the third time, Ireland’s only Ethereum-focused hackathon and conference takes place at Dogpatch Labs, […] ...

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

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

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

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

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

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

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...