A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton, discovered two ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

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

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

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

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

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...