A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a ...

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

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 discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

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

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

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