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Bite marks show evidence of gladiators fighting lions, Durham expert reveals
Bite marks found on a Roman-era skeleton in York are the first physical evidence that humans fought animals in gladiatorial ...
Bite marks on Roman skeleton offer first proof gladiators fought lions
Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...
'Hic sunt leones!' Bite marks found on skeleton prove gladiators fought big cats
Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said ...
Skeleton may show the first direct evidence of a gladiator bitten by a lion
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...
Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman period
The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...
Teeth in the Bones: Gladiator Skeleton Proves Lion Combat in Roman Britain
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 ...
Women from the Bronze Age already carried heavy loads on their heads, skeletal analysis finds
An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women living in the region of ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...