Gladiator mauled by lion 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, study finds
Archaeologists have revealed strong evidence that bloody events once occurred in Roman Britain, far from Rome’s great amphitheaters. A recently examined skeleton from York, England, thought to be from the third century CE, displays unmistakable signs of a fatal encounter with a large predatory cat, perhaps a lion...
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