The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

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

The discovery of a Roman gladiator skeleton with unusual bite marks led to the first direct physical evidence of human-animal ...