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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, ...
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 ...
A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented ...
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 ...
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 more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.
Discovery of mass grave under football pitch changes what we know about the Roman Empire
Located in the Simmering district of Vienna, the mass grave holds the intertwined remains of at least 129 individuals. The ...
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Vienna archaeologists discover skeletal remains in mass grave of fighters in Roman Empire-era battle
On Wednesday, after archaeological analysis, experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first ... that is unique for the entire Roman history." Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated ...