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 ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

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

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The ...

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

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...