Women Gladiators - new evidence discovered

Rob Schaap rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Thu Sep 14 02:55:47 PDT 2000



>Grave May Be Female Gladiator's

If memory serves, the Minoan dig at Knossos (Crete) depicts a lot of female athletes, doing sorta gladiatorial stuff like jumping bulls and the like. During the seventies, there was infact quite a bit of talk that Minoan Crete might have been a matriarchal society, but I can't remember a single cite.

Oh, and while we're on matters historical, has anyone heard anything about a huge, almost humanity-ending cosmic or geological event around 540 AD? Apparently geological and archeological evidence agrees pretty compellingly that 'the dark ages' were introduced by a cataclysmic disaster of some sort. Heard it in a half-sleep, and then heard no more of it.

Cheers, Rob.



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