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The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
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A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
Archaeologists uncover hundreds of bodies under soccer field in eerie find: 'Truly a battlefield'
Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...
Mass grave of over 120 Roman soldiers found under soccer field
In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...
Mass grave of Roman soldiers tells gruesome tale of military disaster
The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...
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4,000 Roman bricks’ research could reveal ancient material production mystery
Archaeologists are set to spend the next two years examining 4,000 stamped bricks from the Roman city of Trier. They aim to ...
Mass Grave of 150 Roman Soldiers Found Under Vienna Sports Field
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...
Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field
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.
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A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...