Unveiled at Last: Shocking Evidence Reveals Ancient Roman Gladiators Face Ferocious Brown Bears in Deadly Combat!
This discovery also marks the first confirmed link between brown bears and ancient Roman spectacles. Various Roman accounts had mentioned brown bears, so the discovery was not shocking, but until now there had not been any physical remains to confirm their direct involvement in such events. This skull now fills that gap.
While the skull itself was not dated, another bone from the same archaeological context was, with researchers placing it somewhere between 1,675 and 1,785 years old.
At that time, Viminacium was a major Roman city and military camp on the lower Danube. Its amphitheater, built in the second century, would have held thousands of spectators, all gathered to watch brutal bloodsport where man and beast fought to the death for their entertainment.
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