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A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away.
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
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Archaeologists Find First Evidence of a Roman Gladiator vs. Lion Battle
New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.
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The Holy Roman Empire and colonization
Half a century later, when Bonaparte dissolved the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, these arguments had ceased to serve their purpose. Despite a lack of maps, which makes it difficult to grasp the ...
NASA’s Roman Telescope Set to Map Billions of Galaxies and Hunt Rogue Planets
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...
Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman period
The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...
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Bite Marks on Ancient Skeleton Reveal First Physical Evidence of Roman Gladiators Fighting Lions
Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...
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‘Mini ice age’ possibly led to end of Roman Empire, suggests unusual rocks in Iceland
Researchers from Queen’s University analyzed unusual rocks from Greenland that had drifted to the west coast of Iceland as a ...
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Skeleton from Roman gladiator cemetery was mauled by a lion or other big cat, archaeologists suggest
It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...
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Archeologists discover sculptures that could be almost life-size representations of a Roman family
New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.
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Horrific death of Roman gladiator at the hands of a LION is revealed by his skeleton as it is found 2,000 years later
The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...
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Gladiator bones finally confirm human-lion combat in Roman Europe
And according to a study published April 23 in the journal PLOS One, the skeleton displays the first-ever evidence of human-animal combat in Europe during the Roman Empire. Gladiator combat is a ...