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Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...
A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat between a human and a large cat, ...
The object was zipping across the open San Luis Valley. It was cigar-shaped and bronze. And, according to Judy Messoline, ...
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...
A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...
and leopards closely matched those on the man's skeleton. They concluded that the injuries occurred at the time of death and were caused by the big cat dragging the man along the ground.
The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...
The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.