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

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

Researchers say the man’s spinal damage, lung inflammation, and lion bite offer a rare glimpse into the brutal reality of ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The ...

This contrasts with early Roman cemeteries ... external on a mission from Rome in AD597. It is possible the remains of other Romano-British churches have been found at sites, including St Albans ...

Pope Clement XIV is also buried in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles in Rome.

An ancient carved stone head, possibly of a Roman god or philosopher, was uncovered beneath a 5th-century church in Rome, ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

It is possible the remains of other Romano-British churches have been found at sites, including St Albans, Hertfordshire, and ...

This is a man who died 1,800 years ago in the territory now occupied by York, where it is believed there was an amphitheater. He was found in 2010 with 81 other bodies in a cemetery from the Roman era ...

By AD410 the city of Rome was under attack and ... the Earl of Ellesmere - did urge workmen to save what they could of the Roman remains during its construction - and the arch under which the ...