New Drawing Unearthed at Pompeii Reveal Kids May Have Been Spectators of Gladiator Fights

2024-05-30 1,467

If you were a teen at the turn of the century you may have gone to watch the film Gladiator at the movie theater, but if you were a kid growing up in Italy 2,000 years ago, you may have seen the real thing. New drawings recently unearthed at the famed Pompeii archeological site, where mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2 millennia ago, reveal young children may have been witness to the famed arena fights.