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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

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

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...

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

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...