Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Hi there again, tigerluver. Someone said to me the other day that European lions around the Mediterranean area (before the Greeks/Romans killed them) were not part of the P.leo spelaea sub-clade of lions, and that instead they migrated from Africa. He also stated that their size (the European lion of Roman times) was much smaller than that of African and Asian lions at that time (I think this was a poster by the name of "LionClaws" back on Carnivora Forums). Is this true? Was there a subsequent migration of lions into Europe after the P.leo spelaea died out, or were those Mediterranean lions actually remnants of the prehistoric Cave lion lineage? 

And, btw, I just got the book about the lions in nepal (after a literal two-day search on Google Books and some other sites). It's actually by an Hindu writer known as Mugdha R. Sandesh, and the book is called "From the Hills of Nepal and Kush," now I just have to prepare/select which texts from the book I want to relate to you on a PDF most likely by Thursday of this week. Sounds good? Reply