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

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

and that gladiators fight each other and were fighting big animals all the time," lead author Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist at Maynooth University in Ireland, told As It Happens host Nil ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city ...

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

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.

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 physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire.

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 has been found. Academics said that ...