Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

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

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

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

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

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

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal ...