{"id":1661,"date":"2007-05-02T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1661"},"modified":"2007-05-02T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:03:54","slug":"gladiator-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1661","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6614479.stm\">A gladiator graveyard was discovered at Ephesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Ephesus graves containing thousands of bones were found along with three gravestones, clearly depicting gladiators.<\/p>\n<p>Two pathologists at the Medical University of Vienna &#8211; Professor Karl Grossschmidt and Professor Fabian Kanz &#8211; have spent much of the past five years painstakingly cataloguing and forensically analysing every single bone for age, injury and cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>They found at least 67 individuals, nearly all aged 20 to 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more interesting is that they discovered signs of gladiators&#8217; lives being taken (as opposed to death by combat) in two different ways: one evidence of death in the ring where &#8220;a kneeling man (had) a sword rammed through down his throat into the heart&#8221; and the other was death after a fight out of the ring because &#8220;a number of the skulls showed rectangular holes that could not have been made by any of the known gladiator weapons. Instead, they suggest the use of a heavy hammer&#8230;&#8221;&#8216;One possible explanation, which is supported by a number of archaeologists, is that there must have been an assistant in the arena who basically gave the gladiator the coup de grace'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I find it pretty fascinating how much sociological detail can be gleaned from a graveyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gladiator graveyard was discovered at Ephesus. The Ephesus graves containing thousands of bones were found along with three gravestones, clearly depicting gladiators. Two pathologists at the Medical University of Vienna &#8211; Professor Karl Grossschmidt and Professor Fabian Kanz &#8211; have spent much of the past five years painstakingly cataloguing and forensically analysing every single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-qN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}