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.

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer a “window ...

Those comparisons, laid out in a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews, point to a surprising conclusion: the Baume ...

Lion bites on skeleton provide first evidence of gladiator’s combat with wild beasts - Skeleton of young gladiator dug out ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered bite marks from a lion on a human skeleton in Roman York, providing the first physical ...

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

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

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

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

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...