A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

The “final image” of Pope Francis will be him greeting crowds on Easter Sunday despite “serious health problems”, the 250,000 ...

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

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days until his funeral ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite marks led to the first direct physical evidence of human-animal ...

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. The skeleton of a man, ...

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in on Monday, as presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders reacted to the news of his death.