In a remote cave in the Gard region of southern France, a team of spelunkers made an astonishing discovery—a 16,000-year-old ...

Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or wild animals to entertain ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

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

Sadly, it appears the wound never healed - and is likely to have been the cause of his death, experts said. The skeleton was excavated from one of the best-preserved gladiator graveyards in the ...

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

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire.

Since they were on the pelvis, they note it’s possible that these bites came as a result of the lion scavenging on the body around the time of death. This skeleton is the first direct ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.