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 ...

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

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

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

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

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

Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

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.