Gladiatorial games are perhaps one of the most iconic and romanticized features of ancient Roman culture.
Jennings did not participate in the study.
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Left: A lion bite mark on the skeletal remains. Right: A marble relief depicting a human-lion gladiatorial fight.© Left: From the research paper: Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain. Right: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
