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

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

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.

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...

meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator show. While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs.