Excavations at the Roman settlement of Augusta Raurica in northern Switzerland revealed evidence of a roadway, burial sites, ...

Bite marks found on a 1,800-year-old gladiator skeleton are the first physical evidence of human combat with animals in Roman times, archaeologists have revealed. The discovery was made in a Roman ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome. This discovery, published in ...

However, the remains of actual arena fighters – their bones – are almost vanishingly rare, making it difficult for archaeologists to verify the reports with hard evidence. When the remains of 74 ...

While archaeologists have found evidence of amphitheaters throughout Roman Britain, including the likely remains of one near York, they’ve never before discovered physical proof that exotic ...

A discovery near the town of Tran has revealed that a dinosaur from the titanosaur group — the same family as the largest known dinosaur on Earth, the Argentinosaurus — once walked the ...

But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of such combat in the form of Roman gladiators’ remains. Most of what we know about the ...

Credit: N. Kress, A. Schmitt / Belgian School at Athens In the area called “Zone 9” of the cemetery, archaeologists found evidence of a unique ceremony. First, the people of Sissi buried their last ...

The skeleton of the young man was found during a 2004 dig in York Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion ...

For the first time known to scientists, a team has documented chimps sharing alcoholic fruit. Anna Bowland / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project / University of Exeter For the first time, scientists have ...

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But now, archaeologists have uncovered the first direct skeletal evidence of such a deadly encounter. Oddly enough, it wasn’t among the ruins of the mighty Colosseum, but rather in the remains ...