Site of epic 'clash' between Spartacus and Romans uncovered

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An ancient stone wall hidden in a forest in Italy was once used by Roman forces to corral slave-revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men.

Archaeologists learned about the now-moss-coated wall, which stretches roughly 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) long, after a local environmental group tipped them off about the site in the Dossone della Melia forest in Calabria, a region in southern Italy, according to the  Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). A team led by University of Kentucky archaeologist Paolo Visonà then used ground-penetrating radar, lidar (lasers shot from an aircraft to map the ground's topography), magnetometry and soil core sampling to study the site.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/site-of-epic-clash-between-spartacus-and-romans-uncovered

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I’m Spartacus!!…..

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Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt with an army numbering in the tens of thousands. He defeated Roman forces over half a dozen times, marching his people up and down the Italian peninsula until he was killed in battle in April 71 B.C.

A favorite character in popular fiction, he was not crucified, and there was no "I’m Spartacus!" moment as seen in the famous 1960 Stanley Kubrick film. Also, while Spartacus was a real person who has inspired revolutionaries and filmmakers, scholars do not have an abundant amount of information about him. Accounts from only about a dozen ancient writers survive to this day, and none of the surviving reports was written by Spartacus or one of his supporters.

https://www.livescience.com/39730-spartacus.html