1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman gladiators. For the first time in Europe, scientists have found physical ...

The following contains spoilers for Gladiator 2, now playing in theatersGladiator 2's line of Emperors ends up being a major element of the two Ridley Scott movies, with the rulership of Rome shifting ...

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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 involved ...

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the Archaeology, ...

It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...

LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle shaped like a gladiator that was discovered in northern England will go on public display for the first time, the charity English ...

A Roman gladiator’s tomb from the third century A.D. was uncovered in modern-day Turkey. Instead of the gladiator, archaeologists found the remains of 12 unidentified people in the reused tomb. The ...

In a river near Hadrian’s Wall, a Roman construction in England, researchers found an ancient piece of sports memorabilia. Ray Harrington via Unsplash As actor Paul Mescal prepares to step into the ...