Bone thugs and history: Gladiators in London death pits were 'chewed by dogs'

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 11:02 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The decapitated heads of defeated Roman gladiators who competed in London 2,000 years ago were thrown into an open pit outside city walls and gnawed on by dogs, a new report suggests.

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