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A 1,900-Year-Old Roman Horse Cemetery With More Than 100 Burials Was Just Discovered In Germany
While preparing for construction of a housing development in Stuttgart, Germany, archaeologists uncovered an ancient Roman ...
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Ancient Bite Wounds Confirm Roman Gladiators Did Fight Lions in Combat
Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...
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Unearthing Gladiators and Big Cats: Ancient Battles Beyond the Colosseum
A new study uncovers evidence of gladiatorial combat between humans and lions in Roman Britain. Forensic analysis of a ...
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Archaeologists Found a Roman Gladiator’s Skeleton—With Bite Marks That Hint He Fought a Lion
Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...
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First Physical Evidence of Gladiators Battling Lions in Roman Britain Discovered
Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...
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Lion Bite to the Butt May Be First Proof of Human-Animal Gladiatorial Combat
Roman gladiators ... bites to those on the ancient bones. The likely culprit of the latter: a lion. Marble artifacts from Roman Britain depict lions mauling gladiators, Thompson says, but ...
Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman period
The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...
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Archaeologists discover ‘large cat’ bite marks on Roman gladiator skeleton for first time
The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 dig at the Driffield Terrace cemetery in York, one of the only known Roman-era burial ... Crowe in the 2000 film Gladiator. Picture: Supplied The ...