Viggen

here again the google maps link of the remains of the amphitheatre... and http://maps.google.a...adius=0.39&z=17 I would assume after reading up on the news report that the circled place west of the theatre is the find in question

...now in english Mapped out by radar, the ruins of the gladiator school remain underground. Yet officials say the find rivals the famous Ludus Magnus

...yes its next to the existing and known amphitheatre, here (still in german but nice pics and you dont need facebook) http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-72451.html

not sure if you can see this wihtout a facebook account, but here it is anyway, the ground radar of the newly found gladiator school, as you can see the structures go 1.80 meter deep, so it looks to me that a substantial amount of those buildings are still there...? also on FB some images and pics...

exclusive news in German (some pics though) Its the largest known gladiator school in the world http://derstandard.at/1315005480799/Fund-Praesentation-Die-Gladiatorenschule-von-Carnuntum

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In my daily newspaper i found some more bits of info... (all in German) http://kurier.at/freizeit/reise/4148083.php ...the interesting part; Der Fund gelang im Boden neben dem ersten Amphitheater. The finding is in the ground next to the first amphitheatre Ausgrabungen gibt es - noch - keine. Die Entdeckung wurde mithilfe von Geo-Radarbildern gemacht. Diese Methode, bei der Magnetstrahlen von Strukturen im Boden reflektiert werden, erm

V, I think you posted a truncated version. Only the first few pages consisting of Gutenberg administrative intro stuff are there and no Josephus. Thanks for that, fixed it

I would agree with the others that this is a story to keep an eye on. So far the only news reports that have been picked up in English language media at best tend to be only slight variations of the original Associated Press notice. I suppose the real test will be what precisely is meant by 'complete' I am currently assuming they are referring to the ground plan of any structures which may together make up a ludus rather than 'free standing' masonry. I somehow suspect that standing remains along the size of the Colosseum may possibly have been noticed before now not sure if that map comes up as intented, but this area is HUGE, from the west colloseum to the most eastern part so far excavated Carnuntum is over 5 km long with allot of absolute zero in between, the danube is wild there and has probably changed its course and shape many times in the last 1.500 years so i would not be surprised if somethign was not found till today... http://maps.google.c...&sz=14&t=h&z=14 here is a map from the university its in german but you get the pic, Carnuntum was a big city streched over more than 5 km http://homepage.univie.ac.at/ilja.steffelbauer/carnuntum.jpg

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...here the news in German from the state TV it seems like the real thing, but we know more on monday.. particular this sentence is very very interesting An Vollst

...I have been a few weeks ago in Carnuntum and there are already two amphitheatre, so i am curios to hear that there is apparently a third one...

Archeologists say they've excavated one of the largest known amphitheatres outside of Rome that was used to train the gladiators who often delighted the Roman public by fighting to the death. The amphitheatre is comparable to the Roman Coliseum - the largest Roman amphitheatre, and the Ludus Magnus the 2,000 year-old gladiator training school and arena, the statement said.... ...found at Adnkronos

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...oh yeah the 80s, when chicks had outrageous hairstyle and no real man would leave the house without shoulderpads... ;-),

...I think Ursus might have just skipped this one, probably he got loads of rain but nothing dramatic, Nephele on the other hand lives in the middle of NY,anyone else from the eastcoast here`?

I have read "Conspirata." If you like I wil review it. Probably for next week. Awesome, thanks

....Ursus was so kind to do a review of the eagle for us http://www.unrv.com/book-review/theeagle.php cheers viggen

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pretty interesting and very detailed discussion, we all watch with awe the knowledge some have on this topic, please keep it that way and refrain from any personal attacks, thanks and keep on going... viggen

...thanks Hieronymus for the review! we did a while back one too http://www.unrv.com/book-review/pompeii.php did you read conspirata? We dont have a review of it as of yet... cheers viggen