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

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

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

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

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

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

Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal ...

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

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

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...