Bite marks from a lion on a man’s skeleton, from a 1,800-year-old cemetery, provide first physical evidence of human-animal combat in the Roman empire. Roman gladiators typically fought each other, but other combatants known as bestiarii would fight dangerous and exotic animals as part of the games.

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3. Bite marks from a lion on a man’s skeleton, from a 1,800-year-old cemetery, provide first physical evidence of human-animal combat in the Roman empire. Roman gladiators typically fought each other, but other combatants known as bestiarii would fight dangerous and exotic animals as part of the games.