Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...

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

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A new study describes a previously unknown prehistoric tribe of hunter-gatherers from the southern coast of Texas, who ...

Clone Robotics has released a new video of its first musculoskeletal android, Protoclone. Touted as the most anatomically ...

She’d seen them before, on bones that were butchered with stone tools about 1.8 million years ago, from a site called Dmanisi in Georgia. These were cut marks made by a human ancestor wielding a ...

Resident Terence van Wyk said that graves and tombstones were disturbed by the floods, with human skulls and bones lying along the riverbank. “This is not the first time this has happened, and no one ...

a human bite mark on her ear, and lacerations on her body. The rescue group said the fracture to her left femoral head is an old injury, and the break to the right femoral head is new, likely the ...

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones. Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a ...