Monday 3 October 2011

Huge Gladiator School Found Buried in Austria

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110913-gladiator-school-austria-roman-ancient-walmarts-science/
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
by Traci Watson

Archaeologists found a huge gladiator school outside of Vienna, the capital of Austria, by using tractor-mounted radars. The tractor-mounted radars equipment produces 3-D images of the buried objects. Archaeologists believe that it was built around 150 A.D. and that Commudus the son of Aurelious, the emperor, saw his first gladiator matches there.They can't prove it but they thing so because of the chronology. The school  had the size doubled of a Walmart because it had an amphitheater,for the gladiators and a walled field, where they had their horsed. The hole school is 200,00 square feet. The building gives important clues to archaeologist about gladiators' lifes ,that where mostly slaves, but it haven'n been excavated all.