As It Happens 6:16 Did Roman gladiators really fight animals? This one has the bite marks to prove it In one ancient battle between man and beast, it appears the beast reigned supreme.

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Gladiator spectacles involving wild cats, bears, elephants, and other animals are frequently described in Roman art and texts. But despite those accounts and the hundreds of excavated Roman ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

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

Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination.

Images of these spectacles survive to the present-day, but no direct links have supported human-animal gladiator matches in Roman Britain.

Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of glorious combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics and then retold in ...

Gladiator fights were a popular form of entertainment in ancient Rome, and the fighters were most often slaves, prisoners and, on occasion, volunteers.

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