Scientists have determined that bite marks on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for gladiators ...

It was a fitting choice: Francis was particularly devoted to the Virgin Mary, and Santa Maria Maggiore was the first church ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

The discovery on remains found in York highlight how humans fighting large cats was entertainment on the edge of the Roman ...

A Roman-era skeleton from York, northern England, shows signs of having been bitten by a big cat, thus providing the first ...

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

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

While images of gladiators being bitten by lions have appeared in ancient mosaics and pottery, this is the only convincing ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

A gruesome new discovery provides the first skeletal proof of humans being attacked by big cats in Roman gladiatorial spectacles. Found in a cemetery near York, the bones show clear bite marks from a ...

The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, a fifth-century church, has served as the burial site for seven popes. The last pope to be ...