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READ MORE Such animals had to be fed to survive, sometimes with special foods in the case of the almost-toothless animals.
The pet cemetery was discovered 10 years ago just outside the city walls under a Roman rubbish dump, although it was unclear at first what the archaeologists had discovered.
After the first 100 animals were unearthed, the researchers published their findings in a 2016 paper.
The experts could not initially tell whether they had found a cemetery or a dumping ground for dead animals.