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.
linkHAHA! 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) :eyebrow:
All jokes aside this is pretty bloody interesting. Nice one Bruce. (and Oh Yeah! 1st eva 1st post)
...Most of the skeletons were violently decapitated...
Is there any other way? Can you
gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
Yes, but I think it's probably more painful ...?
What a suck=y job, Gladiator. Hot, noisy, dusty, lion-y...tiger-y...
Head-cut-off-y....
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
Sound's like the
guy who committed suicide with a guillotine found a slightly gentler way....
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos vado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos va-a-ado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos va-a-ado,
Hic nos vado, hac nos vado, hac nos vado!
Not in Italy, or Sicily, or Greece, but England.
Never doubt the English voracity for violence.
Is there any other way? Can you gently decapitate someone?:neutral:
It's like I always say, "it's better to get head than to give it."
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.
Unfortunately, it looks if
Spartacus is going to be popping any more blood baloons, he'll have to be recast.
Head-cut-off-y....
Obscure brother to the more famous Moammar Cut-off-y.
Obscure brother to the more famous Moammar Cut-off-y.
LOL
I see that gladiator was buried with a K-Mart road flare. Most interesting.. :o
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
What do you call a smiling Centurion with a pubic hair stuck in his teeth?
A gladiator.