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Did gladiators really fight to the death?
A famous 1872 painting of a crowd giving the 'thumbs down' shaped how we picture gladiator fights. Skeletons from a real gladiator graveyard tell a very different story.
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A famous 1872 painting of a crowd giving the 'thumbs down' shaped how we picture gladiator fights. Skeletons from a real gladiator graveyard tell a very different story.
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