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Comentario por José Luis Santos Fernández el septiembre 7, 2011 a las 12:27pm

Gladiator school discovered in Carnuntum

Press release, 5 September 2011

A sensational discovery has been made by an international team from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI-ArchPro), together with the Archaeological Park Carnuntum, using state-of-the-art ground penetrating radar devices. After a few hours of scanning, the remains of a gladiator school were discovered, internationally unique in its dimensions and completeness. Through its promotion of research into Carnuntum, Austria’s largest archaeological landscape, the Province of Lower Austria has set new standards both in the scientific sector as well as in the field of presentation and communicating with regard to the conservation and presentation of archaeological sites.

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As the gladiators’ training and living quarters next to the Amphitheatre of the civilian city of Carnuntum (Petronell-Carnuntum), the newly discovered gladiator school has such clearly defined building structures that it can only be compared at the moment with the Amphitheatrum Flavium and Ludus Magnus in Rome.

 

The completeness and the dimensions of this sensational archaeological structure, which was brought to light with state-of-the-art, non-destructive methods, is, however, unique throughout the world. A highly qualified research team made the discovery. Using non-destructive radar devices and the latest technology from Lower Austria (without having to excavate), experts from the Province of Lower Austria and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute were able to create (on computer screens) the gladiator school, which is still buried in the ground today. Detailed information regarding this sensational find as well as images and films can be downloaded under http://carnuntum.7reasons.at.

The newly discovered gladiator school will also be taken immediately into the programme of the Archaeological Park Carnuntum. The find can be seen in the Visitor Centre Petronell as virtual animation, and, integrated into the true-to-scale model of Carnuntum, the historical link to the city will be easy to understand. Guided tours will enable visitors to imagine the gladiator school on the actual site. In addition, a separate application has been developed where interested persons can experience the gladiator school directly on site using a smart-phone. The app can be downloaded free of charge under www.wikitude.com.

Furthermore, it is planned to erect a landscape window with a view of how the former gladiator school looked on site.

 

The Archaeological Park Carnuntum – beside the River Danube between Vienna and Bratislava – is situated in the largest archaeological landscape in Central Europe and, with its innumerable historical monuments, is an indispensable part of Lower Austria’s cultural heritage.

The Roman city Carnuntum was once a pulsating metropolis with about 50,000 inhabitants over an area of some 10 sq. kilometres. Now the ancient city has been awakened to new life: 1700 years later the former glory is being recreated from the ruins. The Archaeological Park Carnuntum has become an internationally important cultural-tourism site due to a generous investment project by the Province of Lower Austria. Unique throughout the world, in Carnuntum the basic types of architecture of a Roman city quarter have been recreated in their historical context: a citizen’s house, a splendid city mansion and a public bathing complex. All layouts and decorative details as well as the level of the roads in the city quarter are from one single period. This opens a unique window of time on the first three decades of the 4th century AD.

 

 
Apart from the reconstructions, the Archaeological Park Carnuntum has further locations which enable a closer look at the ancient settlement structure: the ruins of two Roman amphitheatres can be seen as well as the preserved structures of Austria’s largest archaeological monument from Roman times: the Heidentor (Heathen’s Gate). It is situated outside the city walls of the civilian city and was once a triumphal arch in honour of Emperor Constantius II. The Museum Carnuntinum, on the other hand, is Austria’s largest Roman museum and shows the most spectacular finds from the ancient metropolis on the Danube.
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Lower Austria’s Governor, Dr. Erwin Pröll, is also impressed by this latest find: "The discovery of the gladiator school is not only an archaeological sensation, but it also has great international importance. This discovery brings considerable stimulus to our successful Lower Austrian Exhibition ‘Erobern - Entdecken - Erleben im Römerland Carnuntum’ and is proof that our investments in Carnuntum are both justified and will have a lasting effect."
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The concept of the Lower Austrian Exhibition has been fully realized. A total of 42 million euros was invested in its preparation, and after only four-and-a-half-months the Lower Austrian Exhibition expects its 300,000th visitor on 5 September, who will be personally honoured by Governor Dr. Erwin Pröll. The Lower Austrian Exhibition 2011 uses this opportunity to take initial stock of the display ‘Erobern – Entdecken – Erleben im Römerland Carnuntum’.

Press contact:
Mag. Matthias Pacher
T.+43 2163 3377-780, F. -5
M. +43 664 60499 780
matthias.pacher@carnuntum.co.at
www.carnuntum.co.at

Comentario por Guillermo Caso de los Cobos el febrero 26, 2014 a las 8:13pm

El hallazgo de la escuela de gladiadores de Carnuntum, en Austria, desvela que eran prisioneros

 

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Fuente: teinteresa.es | 26 de febrero de 2014

 

Un equipo de arqueólogos ha logrado desenterrar lo que se cree que fue una auténtica escuela para gladiadores, ubicada en el este de Austria. La escuela de gladiadores, o Ludus en latín, se ubicaba en el sitio de Carnuntum, un campamento del ejército en la orilla sur del Danubio y capital de Panonia, provincia clave en la época romana.

 

El descubrimiento, publicado en la revista Antiquity, se trata del primer hallazgo de este tipo encontrado fuera de la ciudad de Roma. Para lograrlose han empleado técnicas sofisticadas de estudio arqueológico, incluyendo la espectroscopia de imágenes aéreas, la inducción electromagnética y de radar para la prospección bajo tierra.

 

La ubicación del hallazgo no es casual, ya que Carnuntum es un lugar en el que se han producido descubrimientos muy espectaculares. Las excavaciones realizadas en este yacimiento en los siglos XIX y XX revelaron muchos de los principales elementos de este amplio complejo , incluyendo la fortaleza del legionario y la ciudad o municipium civil.

 

 

Desvelar yacimientos sin mover tierra

Pero la excavación ya no es la única manera de recuperar y registrar los detalles de estas estructuras enterradas. Gracias a la combinación de nuevas técnicas no invasivas se ha podido llevar a cabo la grabación y visualización de los restos enterrados de la escuela de gladiadores con un asombroso detalle, que junto con la reconstrucción digital ha permitido valorar la importancia del hallazgo.

 

De esta manera, el equipo de arqueólogos austriacos ha mapeado la estructura de dos pisos de la escuela para revelar detalles "sorprendentes" sobre la vida que tenían los gladiadores en el siglo II.

 

La escuela de más de 10.900 metros cuadrados está equipada con celdas individuales para los gladiadores y un campo de entrenamiento circular ubicado en el patio del recinto. Lo que se ha descubierto sugiere que estos antiguos guerreros vivían como prisioneros.

 

"Fue una prisión. Eran prisioneros. Vivían en celdas, en una fortaleza con una sola puerta de salida", señala Wolfgang Neubauer, arqueólogo de la Universidad de Viena, en National Geographic.

 

La escuela de gladiadores pudo albergar a al menos 80 guerreros que dormían en celdas de 32 metros cuadrados. El edificio, que cuenta con calefacción por el suelo para afrontar los inviernos, tenía baños, centro médico y un cementerio cercano, en el que los arqueólogos esperan encontrar restos que arrojen más luz sobre los gladiadores.

 

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