For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

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

Lion vs gladiator: 1,800-year-old teeth marks reveal brutal Roman fighting customs The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not ...

New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. 35,705 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?35,705 people played the daily Crossword ...

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

(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 ...

A gladiator was bitten and probably killed by a lion ... and adds to both previous and ongoing genome research into the origins of some of the men buried in this particular Roman cemetery." He added: ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...