It’s the year 80 CE, and the Colosseum is packed with over 50,000 roaring spectators. The games are about to begin. But you ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it ...

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A study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research, published in PLOS One, presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim attacked ...

Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator schools called ludus. Their diet was predominantly vegetarian, featuring barley-based meals ...

In the amphitheater of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors—but no account of ancient gladiators is complete without its devotees. Eclipsing the modern superfan in ...

A limited number of guests will train in the "art of gladiator combat" and fight against "fellow warriors" Ever wonder what it was like to be a gladiator? Airbnb is about to make that a possibility.

"It is amazing, it's absolutely pristine." Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman town of Corbridge near the remains of ...