Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena battles.

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered bite marks from a lion on a human skeleton in Roman York, providing the first physical ...

Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. But the miracle of Easter didn’t end there.

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.

This simple drink made from water and vinegar was a lifesaver for Roman soldiers during wartime. Access to clean water was ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Titus Andronicus is the Bard's most violent work, and a new production is set to be one of the most extreme takes on it yet.

By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Ekin Özbi̇çer The city gate of Ariassos, one of several ancient cities connected ... cardiac arrhythmia, low blood pressure, even death. It was said that some ...

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed ... corpses were dumped on carts and limbs lay about in pools of blood. A dog dashed in to grab a severed hand. HBO is filming its $100 million ...

Pope Francis died, aged 88, on Monday. But contrary to speculation, his death was not caused by double pneumonia for which he ...

Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins ... First, they isolated cells from the blood of gray wolves and grew them in a dish. There, they tinkered ...