Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

What else would one expect in a massive ancient Roman cemetery for military horses? But something about this particular grave turned out to be much more unusual — and intimate. Archaeologists began ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...

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VIENNA, Austria (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Archaeologists discovered a mass grave of over 100 Roman soldiers dating back to the ancient empire while renovating a sports field. Officials with the Wien ...

That was cross-checked against the known history of relics found in the grave — armor, helmet cheek protectors and the nails used in distinctive Roman military shoes known as caligae.

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.