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The at-home fitness fad is booming – and the next workout trend on our radar? Pelvic floor exercises. Here’s how you can rock ...
Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...
A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...
Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...
The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.
Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...
A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...
"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.
Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...
Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...
Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...