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

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

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

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.

In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered bite marks from a lion on a human skeleton in Roman York, providing the first physical ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

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

While images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery, this is the only convincing ...

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