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BREAKING NEWS – Princeton, New Jersey – Graffiti discovered in the ancient city of Aphrodisias shows gladiator fights between a retiarius (a gladiator armed with a trident and net) and a secutor (gladiator equipped with a sword and shield). Hundreds of graffiti messages engraved into stone in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, in modern-day Turkey, have been discovered and deciphered, revealing what life was like there over 1,500 years ago. But Angelos Chaniotis, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton New Jersey, recently gave a lecture at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum with a new theory of what the drawings. According to Chaniotis, the trident is a large fork, and what people think is a shield is actually a steak. He based his conclusions after discovering near the drawings on the wall, an ancient bag of charcoals, a jar of lighter fluid, and a cooler made out of stone.