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

The discovery on remains found in York highlight how humans fighting large cats was entertainment on the edge of the Roman ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

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

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

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

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

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

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.

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

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

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...