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

Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and so Roman inhumation burials from ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" military event ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in Vienna’s neighboring town of Simmerling. Archeologists from the Vienna ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second ... the human remains likely belonged to soldiers who died during a battle involving ancient Roman legionaries. The discovery and analysis ...

"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization of a battle in the area of present-day Vienna.' ...

a type of footwear used by Roman soldiers. The museum wrote that the dagger was instrumental in the dating because its style was in use from the middle of the first century A.D. to the beginning ...

Archaeologists recently made a colossal discovery: an ancient Roman mass grave, dating back to the first century ... said. Soldiers were typically cremated until the third century, they said.

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating back to ...