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

The Lion King,” playing at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando for the next few weeks, still has ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

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

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of ...

Gladiators were viewed as athletes at the time, and their owners wanted them to win so they would be able to fight again, the study authors said. The lion bite ... in northern Africa, then ...