a Roman archaeologist at King's College London. It wasn't always a fight. Animals were were also used in executions, Pearce said, with their victims bound or otherwise defenceless. "This is a ...

He added: “For years, our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and animal spectacles has relied ... to be able to fight again. If they didn’t survive, they were often provided with ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid ... evidence of a gladiator locked in combat with one of these animals—which appears to have left a huge, lion-sized bite mark ...

1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. 33,714 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,714 people played the daily ...

While accounts of gladiatorial fights in the Roman Empire are well documented—both human vs. human contests and human vs. animal combat—the discovery represents the first direct, physical ...

Until now, archaeologists weren't sure that gladiatorial fights with lions took place outside of Italy – and didn't have much evidence of these battles, other than Roman art depicting the fights.

As a fight to the death reached its end ... the man’s wounds indicate that Roman authorities transported animals from as far away as North Africa to Britain for public events, Thompson says.

While the Romans documented fights between humans as well ... “For years, our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and animal spectacles has relied heavily on historical texts and artistic ...

Bite marks on the pelvis of a man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain were probably made by a lion in gladiatorial combat. The findings provide the first physical evidence that people battled ...

Records of gladiator combat in the Roman Empire have been well-documented, with evidence of both human-human conflicts and fights between humans and animals such as lions and bears. But actual ...

It wasn't always a fight. Animals were were also used in executions, Pearce said, with their victims bound or otherwise defenceless. "This is a reminder of the spectacle culture central to Roman ...