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

New research suggests a skeleton which belonged to a gladiator was mauled by a lion or another big cat during combat.

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

Lion bites on skeleton provide first evidence of gladiator’s combat with wild beasts - Skeleton of young gladiator dug out ...

A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

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.

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