Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

Archaeologists recently discovered proof of a gladiatorial fight with a lion in an unexpected tourist destination: the city ...

Learn how forensic evidence confirms that gladiator and lion combat did occur, and why experts think these fights didn't just occur in Rome.

A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...

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The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.

told Reuters that the cat may have been starved before the fight in order to increase its aggression. “Very speculatively, from the gladiator’s perspective, perhaps an approach like a matador ...

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For instance, this man could not have been a gladiator, Mañas said, because in the Roman Empire, people who fought beasts were either condemned prisoners or venatores, fighters trained to fight ...

"We certainly have within our kind of cultural understanding the sense of gladiator combat, and that gladiators fight each other ... or re-enacting mythological scenes or pretty gory things." ...