Roman texts and artworks are full of depictions of gladiators, the men who fought each other or wild animals to entertain ...

If you look at Roman texts and artworks, you’ll see a lot of depictions of gladiators fighting each other or […] ...

A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

The skeleton, a male aged between 26 and 35, had been buried in a grave with two others and overlaid ... in Roman York and would have staged fighting gladiators as a form of entertainment.

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

Previously, images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been found in mosaics and on pottery, but this was the first time skeletal evidence of the fighting ... £899 for two packets of sweets ...