“The bite marks were likely made by a lion, which confirms that the skeletons buried at the cemetery were gladiators, rather than soldiers or slaves, as initially thought and represent the first ...

The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat ...

that the lion is mauling or dragging this individual on the ground,” he continued. “At the end, when one or both were dead, there would be a burial for the gladiator and the use of the animal ...

The bite mark was made by a big cat, most likely a lion. "A single skeleton from a Roman cemetery outside of York where gladiators arguably were buried presented with unusual lesions." The piece ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not ...