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

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 ...

Those feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first physical evidence of a Roman-era battle between a gladiator and a nonhuman animal anywhere in ...

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said. Teeth imprints from a large cat were found on the pelvis of a man ...

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.

New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. 33,400 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,400 people played the daily Crossword ...

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

This week, we delve into the fossilized remains of an 113-million-year-old “hell ant” discovered in Brazil, the oldest ant ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ...

The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 dig at the Driffield Terrace cemetery in York, one of the only known Roman-era burial ... Crowe in the 2000 film Gladiator. Picture: Supplied The ...

Analysis: The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite marks led to the first direct physical evidence of human-animal combat A couple of years ago a social media trend asked how ...