Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Despite written evidence ...

Gladiator games were more than simple combat - they were a social and political machine designed to unify and control Rome’s population. From the construction of vast arenas to the training of ...

Check out the Shanksgiving Update Launch Trailer for Gorn 2, a VR gladiator combat simulation game developed by Cortopia and ...

A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators and animals, according to new research.Related video above: ...

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 ages ...

It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...

A limited number of guests will train in the "art of gladiator combat" and fight against "fellow warriors" Ever wonder what it was like to be a gladiator? Airbnb is about to make that a possibility.