In 2015, archaeologists discovered an ancient gladiator school near the former Carnutum (present-day Vienna, Austria). The place is full of stones, with visible remnants of the training arena and thermal baths. <\/p>\n
The gladiator training complex was discovered not through excavations, but through the use of remote sensing techniques. Through this research, the researchers were able to obtain a three-dimensional image of the school.<\/p>\n
The school was probably built in the 2nd century CE and covered an area of \u200b\u200b2,800 m2<\/sup>, where the courtyard was the central point. In the middle of the square, there was a free-standing structure with a diameter of 19 meters, which could be a fighting arena. According to researchers, the arena could be surrounded by wooden stands. In the middle of the arena, there was certainly a wooden stake (palus<\/em>), which was used to polish the fighting technique and deliver blows.<\/p>\n There were probably gladiators’ cells in the southern wing of the complex, while in the western part there were quarters of a better standard, intended for trainers (lanista<\/em>) or former gladiators<\/a>. The complex also included bathhouses where the warriors could rest after the fight and relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":90275,"template":"","class_list":["post-97504","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/97504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/97504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}