The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

An amphitheatre probably existed in Roman York, but this has not yet been discovered." York appears to have held gladiator arena events until as late as the fourth century AD, perhaps due to the ...

At last, proof of classical combat between man and beast has been found in the form of a skeleton from a Roman settlement in Britain. It is the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion.

Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of a fierce battle between a Roman gladiator and a lion, rewriting our understanding of ancient combat spectacles. The discovery, made at Driffield ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against ... It appeared that this gladiator had, at one point, ended up in the jaws of a lion. “The analysis of the lesions on skeleton 6DT19 provides ...

Around 2017 he was studying human remains uncovered during a 2004 excavation of Driffield Terrace—a site in York, England, that evidence suggests was a gladiator burial ground during the Roman ...

An amphitheatre probably existed in Roman York, but this has not yet been discovered.” York appears to have held gladiator arena events until as late as the fourth century AD, perhaps due to the ...

With Roman elites present, the city likely saw its share of games and rituals, including gladiator bouts. “York was a very important Roman settlement. The Roman Empire extended throughout ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not ...