The Yorkshire Museum is set to host Professor Mary Beard for an 'In Conversation'-style event. The event, part of the ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

York was originally a small Celtic settlement before the arrival of the Roman Empire, but it soon became one of the most ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

They said that less than five per cent of the ancient city of Eboracum has been excavated, as they continue to search for the location of a potential amphitheatre - where such gladiator battles could ...

including ancient Eboracum (now York). Until now, our impression of such bloody face-offs came mostly from mosaics and pottery, where lions can be seen pouncing and gladiators bleed in stylised agony.

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.

Scientists have determined that bite marks on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for gladiators near the English city of York, known at the time as Eboracum ...