In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

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

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 skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a ...