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Archaeologists Found Coins Depicting Wrestlers Inside a 2,400-Year-Old Grave

Coins showing wrestlers were found inside the tomb, but experts say more evidence is needed to confirm who was buried there.

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Pro athletes always hold some degree of cultural significance, not just now but in civilizations long past. Archaeologists excavating an ancient town in Turkey may have found proof of this from thousands of years ago in the form of a grave that may belong to a beloved wrestler.

According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and reporting by Live Science, researchers excavating a newly discovered cemetery near ancient Aspendos uncovered a stone-slab tomb dating to roughly 475 to 300 B.C. Inside was a human skeleton accompanied by coins depicting two wrestlers locked in combat.

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