It was a cold and wet September day, 9 AD. Mist and drizzle covered three Roman legions and their followers traversing ...

The discovery of a decapitated skull on a Roman frontier in northern Spain has turned a long abstract story of conquest into ...

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 ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Despite written evidence ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

A Ukrainian sniper survived a missile strike and four concussions, but now faces the hardest battle: rebuilding himself.