June 10, 2010: Gladiator Graveyard

[xoxoxoBruce]

Archaeologists have discovered a graveyard they believe is the burial spot for slain Gladiators.
Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.

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.

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.

link