Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

One of the most pivotal scenes in the original “Gladiator” blockbuster was filmed ... Scott burned down a part of the forest for the fight against the Gauls – with the permission of England ...

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

Tales of gladiators going head-to-head with ferocious lions in ancient Rome’s coliseum are legendary. Scenes of such deadly combat have been portrayed in stories, paintings, and mosaics (a Man versus ...

Gladiator 2 doesn’t have any post-credits, mid-credits, or end-credits scenes. After two decades ... Lucius is filled with fury and knows he has to fight in the Colosseum.

The findings provide the first physical evidence that people battled animals in gladiator arenas in Europe, says Tim Thompson at Maynooth University in Ireland. Gladiator spectacles involving wild ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.