A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

In one of the adult graves, archaeologists found a green obsidian dart made in a Teotihuacan style, and isotopic analysis of the bones suggests that only people from Teotihuacan had been ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...

Bite marks found on a Roman-era skeleton in York are the first physical evidence that humans fought animals in gladiatorial ...

Bite marks from a large cat, likely a lion, found in a ancient skeleton are the “first physical evidence” that gladiators ...

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

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

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

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

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