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

Previously, images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been found in mosaics and on pottery, but this was the first time skeletal evidence of the fighting has been found. Academics said that ...

Image: An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a gladiator fighting a lion. Pic: Reuters Academics said the bones showed distinct lesions and were identified as coming from a large cat, probably a lion ...

and that gladiators fight each other and were fighting big animals all the time," lead author Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist at Maynooth University in Ireland, told As It Happens host Nil ...

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Prof Tim Thompson, the forensic expert who led the study, said this was the first "physical evidence" of gladiators fighting big cats. "For years our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and ...

So how did one end up clamping down on the man’s pelvis? “We think this gladiator was fighting in some sort of spectacle and was incapacitated, and that the lion bit him and dragged him away ...