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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 Big Cat conflict was even suggested in the…

For most humans who have breathed Earth’s air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as completely as an exhalation.

For one resident of the ancient Roman Empire, who met a violent demise around 1,800 years ago,…

Archaeologists have uncovered the first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting lions, after bite marks on a skeleton excavated in York, England, were identified as those of a large cat. 

The remains, found at Driffield Terrace – one of…