The First-Ever Evidence Of A Roman Gladiator Battling A Lion. ... Between 26 and 35 years old when he died sometime in the third century C.E., roughly 200 years before the fall of Rome, ...

Bite marks found on the hip bone of a gladiator, known as 6DT19, who fought and died in Roman Britain in the 3rd century C.E. have been put forward as the first such proof.

It's thought there were thousands of individual gladiators in Roman history, with the first recorded Roman gladiator games in the 3rd century BC.

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the Roman Empire. A marble relief from first- or second-century Ephesus ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport. But remains unearthed in England are the first physical evidence of human ...

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 in Italy have recently discovered ancient Roman tombs while excavating a necropolis, including one with a gladiator's epitaph. Coins, lamps and vases were also found.

This is the final piece of evidence from work that began in 2004, when the first skeletons were excavated at the 1800-year-old Roman cemetery, along the Roman road leading out of York to Tadcaster.

A Gladiator’s Marble-Etched Epitaph Is Found in an Ancient Roman Necropolis The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

The Discovery of a Roman Gladiator School Brings the Famed ... west of the municipal amphitheater that had been built in the first half of the second century and excavated from 1923 to 1930 ...