Ancient Greek and Roman armies were large and fearsome for their time, but their warfare tactics and leadership during battle ...
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 ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...
Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion. Bite marks found on a skeleton ...
(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 ...
James R. Ross, Rob S. Rice, Phyllis G. Jestice. Thomas Dunne Books, $35 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-312-30932-9 Armchair conquerors will delight in this encyclopedic and lavishly illustrated compendium of ...
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