Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

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.

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...