A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

A gruesome ancient mass grave of over 150 soldiers was discovered near Vienna in Austria during soccer field renovations. The ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than 100 people.

Bloody, brutal but popular, gladiatorial contests are often seen as the dark side of Roman civilization ... be so keen on watching men and women fight to the death. Ritualized, public violence ...

A sword known as…the gladius ... For nearly a thousand years, the Roman army was the most feared fighting force in the world, and it helped to grow the empire by conquering lands from Spain ...

For fighting at a distance ... the soldiers on the outside stabbed at them with their swords. The Romans also had soldiers who were expert archers. They could accurately bombard an enemy with ...

The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been ... daggers and swords, which indicated that their deaths were due to fighting, the statement said. Related: Archaeologists may have finally ...