The idea of a Roman gladiator ... gladiator graveyards in the world, Driffield Terrace, in 2010. There, researchers have been examining the remains of 82 well-built young men.

This may not seem surprising to anyone who's studied ancient Roman texts, or even watched a modern gladiator movie, both of which depict a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

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

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

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.

The site at Driffield Terrace is considered the world’s only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery with the site containing more than 80 burials. Nearly all of the individuals were young men ...

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.

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted ... It appears that these were gladiators—young to middle-aged men who may have come out of at least one fight alive, only to meet their end in the ...

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

Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or wild animals to entertain large audiences in amphitheaters. However, because the Romans cremated ...

meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator show. While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs.

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying ... a well-known Roman burial site where dozens of young, well-built men have ...