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

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

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 discovery of a young man’s remains in a gladiator graveyard in York, England, has shed new light on the brutal history of Roman Britain. Buried between 1,825 and 1,725 years ago, the man’s pelvis ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

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 ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...