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September 16, 2011

Huge Gladiator School Unearthed in Austria

Traci Watson, National Geographic


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Archaeologists working outside Vienna, Austria, have discovered the remains of a huge school for ancient Roman gladiators—a complex so extensive that it rivals the training grounds outside Rome's Colosseum.

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