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 ...

The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

New study reveals women in Roman arenas fought wild beasts, with rare mosaic evidence extending their history by a century.

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university students ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman military camp, nestled high in the Swiss Alps at an altitude of over 7,000 feet. Initially mistaken for an ancient Roman dwelling, this ...

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. Bite marks found on a skeleton ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

Prof. Mark Horton examines a tiny carved dragon from a Roman military belt. Dragons were powerful symbols in the late Roman army, carried into battle as standards known as ‘draco.’ Could this rare ...

The ancient Roman army didn’t seem to be afraid of anything, but they definitely weren’t afraid of heights, as evidenced by the discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman military camp located 7,000 feet ...