From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...

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 ...

Bloodthirsty roman spectators arriving to watch gladiators fight for their lives might have enjoyed a refreshing cup of wine or purchased a souvenir in the arena, researchers claim. With the help of ...

Even centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, the lives and deaths of gladiators are still a topic of interest for researchers today. These once ruthless, armed combatants had entertained Roman ...

Fearsome Roman gladiators dueling for the entertainment of a roaring amphitheater looms large in the cultural imagination, perhaps now more than ever with Ridley Scott’s blockbuster Gladiator sequel, ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted Roman ...

Archaeologists unearthed a leopard bone from Viminacium, present-day Serbia, belonging to an animal native to Africa.

In Turkey, a team of archaeologists discovered the tomb of a Roman gladiator dating back to the third century B.C., with the remains of 12 individuals inside. The tomb was unearthed during the ...