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 ...
Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...
This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Despite written evidence ...
In April 2025, archaeologists announced an amazing discovery from Driffield Terrace cemetery in York: the bite marks on a third-century skeleton proving combat with a lion. This is the first hard ...
Researchers unearthed the skull from a 2,000-year-old fort, according to Live Science. Further investigation revealed that it ...
(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 ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...
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