Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

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 ...

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 ...