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Old 06-09-2010, 11:42 PM   #1
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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."
Of course that could be explained here.

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Old 06-10-2010, 01:35 AM   #2
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HAHA! That's classic Bruce, I thought the same thing (what bloke wouldn't). We all know boys are fascinated with their weapon from a very young age (and most of us don't grow out of it)
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Old 06-10-2010, 01:37 AM   #3
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All jokes aside this is pretty bloody interesting. Nice one Bruce. (and Oh Yeah! 1st eva 1st post)
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Old 06-10-2010, 02:55 AM   #4
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...Most of the skeletons were violently decapitated...
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?
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Old 06-10-2010, 06:45 AM   #5
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Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?
Yes, but I think it's probably more painful ...?
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:30 AM   #6
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What a suck=y job, Gladiator. Hot, noisy, dusty, lion-y...tiger-y...

Head-cut-off-y....
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:47 AM   #7
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Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?
Sound's like the guy who committed suicide with a guillotine found a slightly gentler way....
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:57 AM   #8
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Old 06-10-2010, 08:10 AM   #9
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Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.
Never doubt the English voracity for violence.
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Old 06-10-2010, 08:20 AM   #10
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Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?
It's like I always say, "it's better to get head than to give it."
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Old 06-10-2010, 09:19 AM   #11
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If watching Spartacus has taught me one thing: It's that people are basically balloons filled with blood, whose extremities will can go flying off at any moment.

Make that two things: Lucy Lawless still rocks.
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Old 09-20-2010, 03:32 PM   #12
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Unfortunately, it looks if Spartacus is going to be popping any more blood baloons, he'll have to be recast.
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Old 09-20-2010, 03:38 PM   #13
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Obscure brother to the more famous Moammar Cut-off-y.
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Old 09-21-2010, 05:25 AM   #14
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I see that gladiator was buried with a K-Mart road flare. Most interesting..
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Old 09-21-2010, 07:26 PM   #15
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Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
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