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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 ...
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2,000-year-old Roman mass grave found beneath soccer field astonishes archaeologists
Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...
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, ...
The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
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Mass grave of Roman-era soldiers discovered beneath soccer field in Vienna
Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and ...
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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Archaeologists Unearth 150 Skeletons Beneath Vienna From 2,000-Year-Old Roman-Germanic Battlefield
Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...
Ancient Rome used high tariffs to raise money too – and created other economic problems along the way
Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.
Roman gladiator's lost tomb is FOUND in Italy after 2,000 years
Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...