The Guardian: Children’s drawings of gladiator fights found in Pompeii
Children’s drawings found in the ruins of the city of Pompeii helped reveal the brutal details of gladiatorial combat. The Guardian reports this.
During excavations in I’Insula dei Casti Amanti, a quarter of the Pompeii archaeological park, drawings were found, presumably made with charcoal by children aged five to seven years. On the same long wall, at a height of 20-50 centimeters, they found images of the outlines of hands and two figures playing with a ball, as well as drawings of a hunt for an animal similar to a boar, and two fighters lying on the ground. All of them were made before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the city in 79 AD.
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The director of the archaeological park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said that together with psychologists from the University of Naples Federico II, they carefully studied the find. Experts came to the conclusion that the children who made these drawings were direct witnesses of gladiatorial battles. “Thus, they were faced with an extreme form of spectacular violence,” the psychologists noted.
It was previously reported that in 2023 in Belgium, a family found an artifact stolen from ancient Pompeii in the wall of their house. It turned out to be a marble fragment depicting a scene from an earthquake that occurred in the city in 62 AD.
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