The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

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By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Bite marks on the pelvis of a man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain were probably made by a lion in gladiatorial combat. The findings provide the first physical evidence that people battled ...

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Credit: Public Domain ...

The Boston Red Sox have arguably the best outfield prospect in the game right now in Roman Anthony. Anthony is widely considered to be the top prospect in Major League Baseball and his metoric ...

WWE fans are losing their sh*t, and are outright disappointed in popular wrestler Roman Reigns throwing support behind the tariff abuser and divider-in-chief, Donald Trump. Say it ain’t so ...

A triple threat match will take place between Roman Reigns, CM Punk and Seth Rollins in a battle between stars with plenty of history with each other. Reigns and Rollins have a fractured ...

That's probably a hyperbolic way to describe Roman Anthony, the top prospect in baseball not named Roki Sasaki entering the season (which feels like "cheating" somehow for the Dodgers newcomer).