Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the St. Mary Major Basilica, where Pope ...

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

Substituting the delicious grain called spelt for its cousin wheat was among the dietary changes that cured serious behavioral and digestive problems for George and Kane’s son, Spencer. Then word got ...

Mangeac had found a hoard of ancient Roman coins — 1,469 silver denarii — buried in a field in Letca Nouă. He said the discovery left him in disbelief. Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating ...

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality comes not from the heart of Italy, but from a quiet field in Yorkshire.

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. Credit: Public Domain ...

They also chemically analyzed the ancient Roman bones to confirm other traits, such as the deceased person’s sex and nutritional condition—clues that could help determine whether this skeleton ...

This man's skeleton represents the first known direct physical evidence of human-animal combat from ancient Roman times, the researchers said. Wild animals used in such spectacles included ...

(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 ...