Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

Before Paul Mescal donned his armor in Gladiator II, Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix faced off 25 years ago in Gladiator; ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial ...

Scenes of such deadly combat have been portrayed in ... The burial location also indicates that gladiator competitions during the Roman Empire weren’t just limited to Rome. “We often have a mental ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals ... or staging “beast hunts” known as venationes. Hunt scenes recreated in the arena put gladiators up against bears, bulls, stags ...