Archaeologists have analysed a skeleton from a probable "gladiator graveyard" in the UK, and found bite marks from a big cat such as a lion or tiger. It's the first physical evidence of gladiator ...

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

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, archaeologists said. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ...

A skeleton of a Roman gladiator with clear traces of large cat bites has been discovered in England. This is the first ...

A skeleton of a Roman gladiator with clear traces of big cat bites has been discovered in England. This is the first evidence of gladiator fights with animals in Europe. Key information A skeleton of ...

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 ... the size and shape of the bite marks using samples from large cats at London Zoo. They concluded the injuries were consistent with those from ...