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

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

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.

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

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 ...