Thursday 27 February 2014

Gladiator School Discovery Reveals Hard Lives Of Ancient Warriors

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Ancient Rome's gladiators lived and trained in fortress prisons, according to an international team of archaeologists who mapped a school for the famed fighters. Discovered at the site of Carnuntum outside Vienna, Austria, the gladiatorial school, or ludus gladiatorius, is the first one discovered outside the city of Rome.

Now hidden beneath a pasture, the gladiator school was entirely mapped with noninvasive earth-sensing technologies. The discovery Makes clear what sort of lives these famous ancient warriors led during the second century A.D. in the Roman Empire.

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