Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks ...

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

This is a man who died 1,800 years ago in the territory now occupied by York, where it is believed there was an amphitheater. He was found in 2010 with 81 other bodies in a cemetery from the Roman era ...

A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman ... had an extensive reach beyond the core Roman territories, and while an amphitheater likely existed in Roman York, it hasn’t been discovered ...

The first Roman skeleton to be found with a lion bite ... as they continue to search for the location of a potential amphitheatre - where such gladiator battles could have taken place.