Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

Carbon-14 analysis helped date the bones to between 80 and 130 A.D. That was cross-checked against known history of relics ...

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

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

Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...

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

Located in the Simmering district of Vienna, the mass grave holds the intertwined remains of at least 129 individuals. The ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until ... against known history of relics found in the grave – armor, helmet cheek protectors, the nails used in distinctive Roman military ...

several scales of armor that show distinct differences from known varieties, the metal cheek piece of a Roman helmet, two iron spearheads (one stuck in a hip bone, mind you), and hobnails from ...