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The Sangamon County Coroner is investigating human skeletal remains found earlier this month.
Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...
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.
This is a man who died 1,800 years ago in the territory now occupied by York, where it is believed there was an amphitheater. He was found in 2010 with 81 other bodies in a cemetery from the Roman era ...
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 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 ...
The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...
Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...
Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...
Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...