A 1,800-year-old skeleton discovered in Roman Britain bears bite marks suggesting a violent death at the hands of a large ...

A Roman-era skeleton, unearthed in York, England, has provided the first physical evidence that British gladiators engaged in deadly battles not just with each other but with ferocious big cats. The ...

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 ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

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

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

A cat in a tree, Parkes Lane, Chuckery was rescued by some good people including Steve Parkes, who spotted the cats, J W ...