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

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator elevated the profiles of its cast, helping them gain recognition and build their net worths.

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

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 first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

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

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

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

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.