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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, ...
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Mass Grave From Roman-Era Battle Discovered Beneath a Soccer Field in Vienna
Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" ...
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Rome’s Inequality Was Bad. But China’s Han Dynasty Was Even Worse
Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...
Quote of the Day: Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field
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 war ...
A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...
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These Soldiers Died 2,000 Years Ago— The Mystery Is Just Starting
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mass grave beneath a soccer field in Vienna, revealing the remains ofabout 150 Roman ...
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 ...