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

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

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal ...

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

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

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