Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

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.

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

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

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...