The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman ... swords and iron bolts, suggests they were sustained during battle rather than the result of ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, morphed into an archaeological dig, and it wasn’t long before experts ...

(CNN) — The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

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

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers ... rules out execution. It is truly a battlefield," said Kristina Adler-Wölfl, head of Vienna city archaeological ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than ...