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

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

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

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

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

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

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

A skeleton from Roman-era England has bite marks consistent with those of a large cat like a lion, suggesting that this individual may have died as part of a gladiator show or execution, according to ...

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 ...