"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

The discovery of a young man’s remains in a gladiator graveyard in York, England, has shed new light on the brutal history of Roman Britain. Buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago, the man’s pelvis ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton, discovered two ...