Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" ...

The Mongol Empire was led by Genghis Khan, a conqueror who united the Mongolian tribes across Asia. Khan established a large, disciplined military infamous for its brutal and violent attacks as the ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

We’ve come up with a list of the 10 best weapons in Marvel comics and ranked them and while all of these weapons are great in ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

Mild violence includes Jesus’ crucifixion (which isn’t graphically depicted), the cutting of a Roman soldier’s ear (which Jesus heals) and references to the potential stoning of a woman ...

In fact, most of the skirmishes (there was never a full-scale battle) were won by the Lusitanians by sheer force of numbers including their womenfolk who willingly donned armour to hold ... a ...

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, morphed into an archaeological dig, and it wasn’t long before experts ...

They dug up the remains of potentially 150 males aged between 20 and 30 years, hinting that a “catastrophic event in a military ... Roman iron dagger with inlays of silver wire, several scales ...