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Monday, June 7
June 7, 2010

Forensic testing of more than 80 Roman-era skeletons unearthed in York, England, indicates that that the athletic young men with well-developed right arms had been gladiators. Some of the bodies had been decapitated and had received hammer blows to the head. One of the bones also showed evidence of a bite from a large carnivore, […]

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