Researchers think gladiator-style arena events were occurring there as late as the fourth ... an associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. Neel was not involved ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Rome’s infamous Gladiators have captured ... sword that was commonly used by Greek soldiers. While swords were common ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles ... in the making has provided the first proof that gladiators did indeed fight animals. The discovery by a ...

(Disappointingly, gladiators appear not to ... Dave Yoder Most of the hypogeum—from the Greek word for "underground"—was directly beneath the arena floor. The hidden section was two stories ...

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena battles. Forget the Colosseum and ...