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 ...

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 ...

The groundbreaking study led by a professor at Maynooth University in Ireland found physical evidence of "Roman gladiatorial ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

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

Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

A 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in Roman Britain bears bite marks suggesting a violent death ... would thus represent the first direct anthropological evidence of human-animal combat in Roman ...

Archaeological find in Gloucester: 317 skeletons and Roman mosaics under old warehouse reveal 2,000 years of hidden British ...

It was an important military outpost and city in northern Britain ... does provide new evidence that such human-animal combat took place outside of Rome. “We often have a mental image of ...