Bite marks found on a 1,800-year-old gladiator skeleton are the first physical evidence of human combat with animals in Roman times, archaeologists have revealed. The discovery was made in a Roman ...

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 ...

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They were called venatores. They were a specialized type of gladiator who, from the 1st century BC onward, fought in the arenas of the Roman Empire against wild animals. Bears, leopards, lions, and ...

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 ...

Archaeologists with the York Archaeological Trust recovered the remains from Driffield Terrace, which they consider to be a gladiator graveyard. The spot sits along the old Roman road leading out ...

Lion tooth mark on the hip bone. A dramatic new discovery from a Roman cemetery in York has revealed the first osteological proof of gladiator combat with wild animals, after bite marks on a ...

It is the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton was discovered 20 years ago, in an excavation spurred by a couple hoping to renovate the yard of their home in the ...

Now archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of a gladiator locked in combat with one of these animals—which appears to have left a huge, lion-sized bite mark on the fighter’s butt.

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

For instance, this man could not have been a gladiator, Mañas said, because in the Roman Empire, people who fought beasts were either condemned prisoners or venatores, fighters trained to fight ...

Marble relief with lion and gladiator. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum. Until now, no direct osteological proof had ever confirmed human-animal combat in Britain — or anywhere in the ...