Scientific testing is being carried out on a ritually buried skeleton discovered near to a popular tourist attraction in ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

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

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

It's being considered the world's first humanoid robot half marathon, as machines versus man raced to the finish line. NBC ...

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 ...

“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse” is a saying that holds true for the Roman Empire, which expanded ...

When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists.