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Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman ... physical relics like weapons and armor, the lack of forensic information ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old gladiator tomb has been discovered in a necropolis outside of Naples, Italy. Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Liternum, in present-day Giugliano in Campania ...

While images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery, this is the only convincing skeletal evidence using forensic experiments anywhere in the world of ...

Tales of gladiators going head-to-head with ferocious lions in ancient Rome’s coliseum are legendary. Scenes of such deadly combat have been portrayed in stories, paintings, and mosaics (a Man versus ...

While gladiatorial arenas such as the Roman Colosseum have survived for thousands of years, gladiators themselves have left behind little archaeological evidence, and even less that testifies to ...

He said archaeologists had only ever found a few confirmed gladiator remains across regions that once formed the Roman Empire. “For years, our understanding of Roman gladiatorial combat and ...

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Gladiators in Roman York were pitted against lions, archaeologists have said. During the Roman Empire, contemporary authors reported human-animal gladiatorial battles, while reliefs and mosaics in ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The discovery involves a skeleton found in 2004 at Driffield Terrace in York ...

Zack George, who plays Steel in BBC gameshow Gladiators, has announced the death of his son Leo just days after the baby was born prematurely. The 34-year-old described his son as “our lion ...