and that gladiators fight each other and were fighting big animals all the time," lead author Tim Thompson, a forensic anthropologist at Maynooth University in Ireland, told As It Happens host Nil ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid ... evidence of a gladiator locked in combat with one of these animals—which appears to have left a huge, lion-sized bite mark ...

An archeological breakthrough two decades in the making has provided the first proof that gladiators did indeed fight animals. The discovery by a team of archaeologists may simply confirm what ...

The findings provide the first physical evidence that people battled animals in gladiator arenas in Europe, says Tim Thompson at Maynooth University in Ireland. Read more Who were the enigmatic ...

showing a fight between a beast fighter and a lion.Credit...The Trustees of the British Museum Supported by By Kate Golembiewski Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of ...

"Predatory animals—above all big cats but also sometimes other animals, for example bears—were pitted as combatants against specialist gladiators ... he may have been fighting for the ...

While the Romans documented fights between humans as well as humans and animals in artwork and records, the physical evidence of gladiators and the battles they faced for the sake of entertaining ...

Female gladiators were a rarity in Ancient Rome, but the role they played was fascinating. Read on to find out more.