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Article: DISCOVERY OF WOMAN'S BONES A GRAVE ISSUE FOR MEN TURNS OUT THAT SHE WAS A MIGHTY GLADIATOR IN LONDON.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 13, 2000
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Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a woman gladiator who fought in the Roman amphitheater in London.
Since an excavation four years ago in Southwark, in London, archaeologists and other scientists have been studying and arguing over the cremated bones and the extraordinary grave goods - including a funeral feast of luxurious imports and tiny pottery oil lamps showing a fallen gladiator and the Egyptian god Anubis, who is associated with the cult of the dead.
``We now believe that this is something quite remarkable, the only known grave of a woman gladiator,'' Simon Thurley, director of the Museum of London, said yesterday. ``You can argue ...