Mr Holst added: “The bite marks were likely made by a lion, which confirms that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were ...

Gladiators in Roman York were pitted against lions, archaeologists have proved. During the Roman Empire, contemporary authors ...

Traffic on a main road into York was at a crawl this morning (April 22) following a road closure over the Easter weekend.

Malin Holst, lecturer in osteoarchaeology at the University of York, said she had never seen ... which confirms that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were gladiators, rather than soldiers ...

A suspected lion bite has been found on a skeleton in a Roman burial site in Driffield Terrace, York, leading researchers to believe that ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...

A skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York has provided the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions. Fictional depictions of gladiators often show them ...

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...