Fighting champ was recruiter for Roman army
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Millennia before modern-day military recruiters talked up potential soldiers in shopping malls or put up posters, one Roman city took a rather different approach to recruiting soldiers for the emperor's army. A newly translated inscription, dating back about 1,800 years, reveals that this city in southwest Turkey turned to a mixed martial art champion to recruit for the Roman army.