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

Ridley Scott's historical epic sequel, Gladiator II, finds strong streaming success after a respectable yet underwhelming box ...

The craziest trilogy fight in the history of combat sports came when bitter rivals Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr trained as ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

An amphitheatre probably existed in Roman York, but this has not yet been discovered." York appears to have held gladiator arena events until as late as the fourth century AD, perhaps due to the ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first physical evidence of a Roman-era battle between a gladiator and a nonhuman animal anywhere in ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...

It turns out that the city, famous for its massive gothic Minster cathedral, is also home to a gladiator graveyard. An 1800-year-old cemetery lies on the Roman road leading out of York. Excavation ...