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This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...
A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...
A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.
Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...
Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...
Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...
A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...