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In April 2025, archaeologists announced the discovery of the first hard physical evidence of gladiatorial combat head-to-head ...
The victim was camping with other tourists at the tented resort when the early morning tragedy unfolded, police said.
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, according to a new study.
The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages of 26 and 35, shows bite marks on the pelvis from a big cat, which could have been a lion, archaeologists said in a new study published in ...
At last, proof of classical combat between man and beast has been found in the form of a skeleton from a Roman settlement in Britain. It is the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion.
The skeleton of a man, who was between the ages of 26 and 35 when he died, was found with bite marks from a large cat — likely a lion — on the pelvis.
Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city of York in the United Kingdom.
(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...
“The analysis of the lesions on skeleton 6DT19 provides convincing evidence that these were produced from the teeth of a large cat, such as a lion,” Thompson and his team said in a study ...
The skeleton, from third-century Britain, has bite marks from a big cat such as a lion or tiger, according to a study published in PLOS One today. Lions feature heavily in Hollywood depictions of ...
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, according to a new study.
The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages of 26 and 35, shows bite marks on the pelvis from a big cat, which could have been a lion, archaeologists said in a new study published in ...