A Roman skeleton found in York shows bite marks from a lion, offering the first physical evidence of gladiators fighting wild ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

say forensic anthropologist Timothy Thompson of Maynooth University in Ireland and colleagues. The man’s remains, which date to between the years 200 and 300, come from what may have been a ...

The findings were published on Wednesday in PLOS One. Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist at Maynooth University in Ireland, spends a lot of time examining the disfigured skeletons of people ...

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...