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. Despite written evidence ...
1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...
In April 2025, archaeologists announced an amazing discovery from Driffield Terrace cemetery in York: the bite marks on a third-century skeleton proving combat with a lion. This is the first hard ...
(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...
Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...
A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...
Roman Reigns is officially the Tribal Chief of the Bloodline once again after he defeated Solo Sikoa in an absolutely chaotic Tribal Combat match on the Raw on Netflix premiere. Both men held nothing ...
Get ready for Tribal Combat. This week on Smackdown, Roman Reigns challenged Solo Sikoa to a Tribal Combat Match on the Netflix premiere of WWE Raw. The challenge came during a pre-taped vignette.