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It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some ...
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This 1,700-Year-Old Skull is the First Evidence of a Gladiator Bear in the Roman Empire
When you think of gladiators, you probably picture men with swords. But in Roman arenas, the opponents gladiators faced weren ...
The Viminacium bear was a local bear from the Balkan region, and the authors speculate that its capture could have been done ...
What many people know about Roman gladiator fights comes from Hollywood movie scenes. However, archaeologists and historians ...
The artifacts and artworks on display paint a refreshingly broad picture of Roman life in the northern reaches of the Empire.
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Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, controversial study suggests
Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not involved ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...
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