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Women in the Roman Legions???

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Women in the Roman Legions???
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07-03-2010, 05:30 PM
This is probably based on a grave find from Britain a year or so back, I believe it was 2 female skeletons with a couple weapons, something like that. And since sensationalism means funding, they announced that these 2 ladies MUST have been Roman soldiers. Pretty much like the woman they'd found a couple years before, buried with a mass-produced lamp with a gladiator on it, and tourist statuette of Isis, so they concluded that she was an Egyptian priestess gladiatrix!

One of my co-workers has a Washington Redskins pencil jar, so she MUST be a pro football player, right? Sigh...

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Re: Women in the Roman Legions??? - by Matthew Amt - 07-03-2010, 05:30 PM
Re: Women in the Roman Legions??? - by Jvrjenivs - 07-07-2010, 06:36 AM
Re: Women in the Roman Legions??? - by Crispvs - 07-07-2010, 01:14 PM

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