Female gladiators were a rarity in Ancient Rome, but the role they played was fascinating. Read on to find out more.

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.

Before they could lay the smackdown in the arena, gladiators were professionally trained, combining a physical regimen with an education in the rules of the ring. Gladiator reenactors pose amid ...

the first known physical evidence of human-animal combat in ancient Roman times. "We certainly have within our kind of cultural understanding the sense of gladiator combat, and that gladiators ...

Gladiators, for instance ... York used to be a legionary fortress in Roman times. Because it was forbidden to bury the dead within settlements, they were instead laid to rest at the edges of ...

At the time, they could tell from tooth enamel the wide variety of Roman provinces from around the world that the skeletons hailed from. The gladiator in question was buried in a grave with two ...

The osteological evidence, the first of its kind in the world, represents the clearest proof ever found in a skeleton that gladiators fought exotic animals in Britain during Roman times.

The man, who was between 26 and 35 years old at the time of his death, was buried in a cemetery that is thought to contain the burials of other gladiators. In Roman times, the cemetery was in ...

The man, who was between 26 and 35 years old at the time of his death, was buried in a cemetery that is thought to contain the burials of other gladiators. In Roman times, the cemetery was in ...

However, researchers identified it as a gladiator burial ground thanks ... can shed more light on life in the surrounding Roman colony at the time. “It will be possible to achieve important ...

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Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator ... Around the same time, a 2,000-year ...