Although the ancient Roman gladiators were famous for their bravery and bravery, they were actually vegetarians. This is the latest result obtained by paleoanthropologists from Austria and Germany after examining and analyzing the bone fossils unearthed from a gladiator cemetery in Ephesus, a famous Roman city site. The researchers found that the daily diet of these gladiators living in the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC was no different from that of ordinary citizens at that time, with relatively inferior grains as the main food and little meat.
However, the contents of strontium and calcium in their bones are indeed quite high, which also confirms the records in historical documents that gladiators make their bones stronger by drinking plant ash drinks.
By studying the world's largest cemetery of Roman gladiators, scientists found that although Roman gladiators were extremely strong and physically strong, they were pure vegetarians, and they only ate some barley and beans. This is the conclusion reached by scientists after analyzing more than 70 gladiator bones recently discovered in Ephesus.
Contrary to the literature records of gladiators in the same era, experts found that the food eaten by gladiators was barley. Anthropologists analyzed the bones of gladiators through chemical experiments and found that gladiators ate barley and beans. Gladiators eat a lot of this food every day, which makes them very fat and strong. The main reason why they eat according to this diet may be to increase fat to protect their nervous and vascular systems from trauma and injury.