Archaeologists discover remains of a Roman gladiator school in Austria

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

Archaeologists discover remains of a Roman gladiator school in Austria
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:36 PM on 5th September 2011

British archaeologists were among a team who have discovered the ruins of a Roman gladiator school on the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna.

The find, which has been described as 'one in a million' and 'sensational', is one of 100 hundred such schools the Romans built to train the fighters before they were pitted against each other in brutal combat.

The Brits were among an international team of historians, geologists and archaeologists from the Ludwig Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Vienna.

Ground penetrating radar was used to identify the school at a Roman park called Carnuntum which is the site of an old settlement containing one of the finest amphitheatres ever discovered 40 miles east of Vienna.


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[MADem]

1. Vy do I sink dat Ahhnuld vill be thrilled about zis discovery? nt

[No Elephants]

2. Government got men to fight each other to the death to amuse the populace so that the

populace would not revolt. A bit to eat did the rest.

Bread and circus.

[DetlefK]

3. They had Gladiators, we have reality shows and the empty hype about celebrities.

Which of those exemplifies a decadent disconnect from life and morals?

[Sal Minella]

4. Foodstamps and Faux. CheezieCrunchieSnak and NASCAR.

McDonalds and PrayerPaloozas . . . .

[Odin2005]

5. We have football and American Idol.

[slackmaster]

6. That makes a lot more sense to me than a TV show called "Survivor" in which nobody ever dies.

At least it was honest entertainment.

[w0nderer]

7. k&r n/t

[MicaelS]

8. Do you like movies about Gladiators, Ahnold? n/t