Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British fighters may have been attacked by ferocious big cats during arena battles.

He said archaeologists had only ever found a few confirmed gladiator remains across regions that once formed the Roman Empire. “For years, our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and ...

Gladiators also were pitted against animals. While there are depictions of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts, actual forensic evidence has been elusive, until now. Scientists have ...

Analysis: The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite marks led to the first direct physical evidence of human-animal combat A couple of years ago a social media trend asked how ...

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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 ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

If you've ever watched BBC Gladiators and longed for the chance to step through the TV to see the action in the flesh, now you can do just that. Later this year, the cast of Gladiators are going ...

Gladiators star and former Olympian Montell Douglas – a self-proclaimed “queen of reinvention” – impressed us with her ballroom moves on the latest season of Strictly Come Dancing and ...

The BBC's Gladiators has been a mainstay on our televisions for years, but now it's time for the warriors to step off the screen and onto stages across the UK with Gladiators Live. Starting this ...