Mr Holst added: “The bite marks were likely made by a lion, which confirms that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

Researchers have found proof that Roman gladiators fighting lions is not just fiction, but it actually happened in real life. A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York, UK, is proof that a man ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of ...

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 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 ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were 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 ...

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 ...

An amphitheatre probably existed in Roman York, but this has not yet been discovered." York appears to have held gladiator arena events until as late as the fourth century AD, perhaps due to the ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...