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Looking for some Activities to add to your Nimes, France itinerary? There are plenty of things to do, depending on your time ...
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A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks to bite marks found on a skeleton in a gladiator cemetery. This adds a ...
Now archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of a gladiator locked in combat with ... The likely culprit of the latter: a lion. Marble artifacts from Roman Britain depict lions ...
Archaeologists with the York Archaeological Trust recovered the remains from Driffield Terrace, which they consider to be a gladiator graveyard. The spot sits along the old Roman road leading out ...
Statue of Constantine the Great in York. Credit: York Minster / Wikimedia Commons Although the combats were violent, gladiator owners did not want them to die. They were expensive ‘athletes,’ similar ...
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 study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research, published in PLOS One, presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human ...