first confirmed gladiator graveyard

In 1993,a team from the university of Vienna in Austria who were working at Ephesus in turkey found a 20-m2 (215.28- sq- ft) area filled with human bones and tomb reliefs depicting gladiators. Sixty- eight individuals were identified  all bering trauma  wounds consistent with  a career  in the arena. Analysis proved the injuries matched the types of weapons used by gladiators and their manner of fighting.