Golden State Warriors guard Buddy Hield was left unimpressed by the Colosseum. Why? Because he found out that the Maximus character from Ridley Scott's ...

Dead Again Games' Blood on the Sands, the awesome Historical gladiatorial game that we looked at earlier in the year, is now available to pre-order! If you missed out on the Kickstarter campaign, you ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern frontier ...

A new research study has suggested that there is actual evidence of human-lion or human-leopard combat in the gladiator arena. This work, which was reported in PLoS ONE, has identified the marking ...

The best evidence yet that Roman gladiators fought lions: a bite mark For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

The Roman gladiator who was killed by a lion. (Hew Morrison via SWNS) By Amy Reast A forensic artist has recreated the face of the Roman gladiator who was mauled by a lion in York.

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

Bite Marks on Ancient Skeleton Reveal First Physical Evidence of Roman Gladiators Fighting Lions Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been ...

Irish-led study finds physical evidence of gladiators battling lions from the Roman era The study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators fought animals in Roman amphitheaters, new research shows.

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 ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not ...