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

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

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

The discovery on remains found in York highlight how humans fighting large cats was entertainment on the edge of the Roman ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

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.

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

An academic from Maynooth University has helped, in a world first, to prove that Roman gladiators fought exotic animals like ...

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of ...