1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton, likely of a man who died between the ages of 26 and 35, shows bite marks on the pelvis from a big cat, which could ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era ...

In April 2025, archaeologists announced an amazing discovery from Driffield Terrace cemetery in York: the bite marks on a third-century skeleton proving combat with a lion. This is the first hard ...

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman gladiators. For the first time in Europe, scientists have found physical ...

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 skeleton were matched to those made by a ...

Wed, April 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC Gladiators, for instance, fought each other—and often animals—to the death in arenas where bloodier was better. Ancient Romans often delighted in watching carnivores ...

Lions, tigers, and bears. These, among many other exotic animals, are the beasts with which gladiators did battle in amphitheaters across the Roman empire. It’s a spectacle that has long captured the ...

(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 ...

Bite marks found in a Roman-era skeleton are the first physical evidence of “human-animal gladiatorial combat,” archeologists said in a new study. Teeth imprints of a large cat were found in the ...