June 10, 2010: Gladiator Graveyard
Archaeologists have discovered a graveyard they believe is the burial spot for slain Gladiators.
Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.
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Archaeologists believe they have found the world's best-preserved gladiator cemetery in York, England.
The 2,000-year-old skeletons appear to have suffered violent injuries usually sustained in a Roman amphitheater.
Most of the skeletons were violently decapitated and appeared to have been buried with some respect.
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Many of the skeletons also had one arm that was stronger than the other, consistent with the frequent handling of a weapon.
"The arm asymmetry would also be consistent with weapons training that had already started in teenage years," Hunter-Mann said, "and we know from Roman accounts that some gladiators entered their profession at a very young age."
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Of course that could be explained here.
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