A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

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 ...

Researchers Stunned to Find First Compelling Skeletal Evidence of a Gladiator Bitten by a Lion In the past, experts have ...

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 in a Roman cemetery in York have provided the first archaeological evidence of an epic battle between a gladiator and a lion.

Bite marks on a Roman-era skeleton found in York are the first physical evidence gladiators fought animals, experts have said ...

Near the foot of one skeleton, the archaeologists also discovered ... torsos and pelvises. Image A skull with a sharp trauma found at an excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the ...