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Is this 1,800-year-old mosaic the first known image of a woman fighting wild beasts in an ancient Roman arena?
A researcher may have identified a depiction of a female hunter—known as a venatrix—in an ancient Roman mosaic. According to a new study published in the International Journal of the History of Sport, ...
An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...
Archaeologists in Switzerland have uncovered the ruins of a Roman-era amphitheater — possibly the youngest on record — where ...
The archaeologist Jean Charles Loriquet created a copy of the mosaic. Alfonso Mañas / International Journal of the History of Sport under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A researcher may have identified a depiction ...
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