An American tourist suffered an extreme and horrific injury while trying to climb a barrier in the Colosseum to take a ...

An American on vacation in Rome is reportedly recovering after climbing a fence at the ruins of the Colosseum, falling and ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

An American, 47, reportedly tried to climb over a fence in Piazza del Colosseo, presumably to get a closer look at the ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.” ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first direct evidence of Roman gladiators fighting lions. Discover the shocking details ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence that Roman gladiators fought lions, found at a gladiator cemetery in York, England. This discovery sheds new light on the brutal venatio animal ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks ...