What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...

As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s thigh bone. Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as completely as an exhalation. For one resident of the ancient Roman Empire, who met ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire. A marble relief from first- or second-century Ephesus, ...