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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 ...
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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 ...
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Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed
When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...
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, ...
Vienna archaeologists discover skeletal remains in mass grave of fighters in Roman Empire-era battle
Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than ...
Smithsonian Magazine10d
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" military event ...
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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 ...