Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion. BBC link in comments [1536×864]
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Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion. BBC link in comments [1536×864]
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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8v2063r19o
The remains were discovered during a 2004 dig at Driffield Terrace, in York, a site now thought to be the world’s only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery. Experts used new forensic techniques to analyse the wounds, including 3D scans which showed the animal had grabbed the man by the pelvis. The pelvis, Prof Thompson explained, “is not where lions normally attack, so we think this gladiator was fighting in some sort of spectacle and was incapacitated, and that the lion bit him and dragged him away by his hip.”
So they didn’t even let the lions eat the gladiators if they won?? But they starved them to get them to fight!! So unfair 🙁
Jesus, all for a cheering crowd too