"Breakspear was a young, impoverished lad from England, with no family connections, no money, and it was quite remarkable ...

Of course, since Peter the disciple was crowned the first pope by Jesus Christ, all 266 popes have been men. However, legend ...

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

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

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

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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.

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...