Strap in, everyone—gladiator sandals are making a triumphant return. Get in on the boho-inspired trend with the best ...

Gladiator dropped in 2000 — that’s over two decades ago. Ridley Scott directed the film, and Russell Crowe went full beast ...

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman ...

In April 2025, archaeologists announced the discovery of the first hard physical evidence of gladiatorial combat head-to-head ...

As It Happens 6:16 Did Roman gladiators really fight animals? This one has the bite marks to prove it In one ancient battle between man and beast, it appears the beast reigned supreme.

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.

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

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton in a Roman cemetery in York have provided the first archaeological evidence of an epic battle between a gladiator and a lion.

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

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.