Ancient Rome wasn't all gladiator battles and marching legions. Behind the empire-building politics was a culture that loved ...

There was some real “grizzly” violence in the arena. It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some might believe — ...

A roman mosaic shows a fighting North African Atlas bear. Jerzystrzelecki via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearly a decade ago, archaeologists found the broken skull of a bear among the ruins ...

The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...

The fossilized remains of a brown bear were discovered near the Viminacium amphitheater in Serbia, a Roman gladiator. The male brown bear suffered a fracture to its frontal bone, which resulted in an ...