The Gladiator Graveyard York, England. 2004–2005. Diggers at Driffield Terrace found 80 skeletons. All young men. All decapitated. Their bones showed carnivore bite marks. Lions. Bears. Tigers. Forensic analysis pointed to one conclusion. Britain's only known Roman gladiator cemetery.
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