Lulu Roman, who came to fame as a comic actress on 'Hee Haw' in the 1960s and later devoted herself to gospel music, has died ...

The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

During the first half of the 2nd century AD, Bad Cannstatt, near the discovery site, was a major Roman military hub in southwest Germany. The cavalry unit ("Ala") stationed at Hallschlag, comprising ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

The work, which began in July 2024, has confirmed that the area was used as a horse cemetery by the Roman legions almost 1,800 years ago. Bad Cannstatt was, during the first half of the 2nd century ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square ...

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators ... died and appears to have lived during the 3rd century AD, when York was known as Eboracum and ...

Known as the Bou Ferrer, it’s one of the largest Roman shipwrecks ever found in the Mediterranean. It sank in the first century while carrying a massive cargo of fish sauce: 2,500 amphorae ...

The last pope buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII in 1903. Francis’s will stipulated a simple burial "in the earth, without particular decoration", marked only with his papal name in Latin: ...