A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped 150-million-year-old space rock. The asteroid Donaldjohanson, located in the main ...

A skeleton of a Roman gladiator with clear traces of big cat bites has been discovered in England. This is the first evidence of gladiator fights with animals in Europe. Key information A skeleton of ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

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

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

The discovery on remains found in York highlight how humans fighting large cats was entertainment on the edge of the Roman ...

Images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery for hundreds of years. However, this is the first convincing skeletal evidence from the Roman Empire of bite ...

The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

A groundbreaking study involving our Department of Archaeology has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal ...

Archaeologists have been left stunned after they discovered a unique object that has been buried under the ice for an ...