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Owen Jarus

Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, controversial study suggests

A mosaic of gladiators fighting animals.

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 with the research had mixed responses to the team's findings, with one expert saying that this person would not have been a gladiator and wondered if the individual was instead a condemned prisoner.

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