Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

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 recently discovered a huge Roman grave under a soccer field in Vienna that is believed to be from the first century A.D.

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

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

MARTIN MOSSER, a member of the Vienna Department of Urban Archaeology who was part of a project that found rare remains of Roman soldiers traced to A.D. 80 to 234. He was saying that the horror of ...

On Wednesday, after archaeological analysis, experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first ... entire Roman history." Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century.

"Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are therefore extremely rare." The preservation of complete skeletons rather than cremated remains offers archaeologists an unprecedented opportunity to ...

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 ...