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
In a significant discovery from Ancient Rome, archaeologists have unearthed a mass grave of Roman soldiers beneath a soccer ...
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‘A Catastrophic Event’: A Mass Grave Of Ancient Roman Legionaries Was Just Unearthed Beneath A Soccer Field In Austria
During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one ...
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 ...
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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German battlefield yields Roman surprises
For weeks, archeologist Petra Loenne and her team have been searching this area with metal detectors, pulling hundreds of ancient Roman weapons out of the ground. They paint a picture of a highly ...
Mass grave of the Roman empire is found under a Vienna soccer field
Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...
Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas
The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting ...
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This Ancient Pyramid Found in the Judean Desert May Have Been a Ptolemaic Tax Collector’s Station
The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...
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What was life like in the Roman army?
The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... The soldiers were the best trained, they had the best weapons and the best armour. When the Romans invaded Britain, their ...
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Ancient Roman structure hid under lawn of historic mansion in Slovakia — until now
Archaeologists excavating the historic Rusovce Mansion found an ancient Roman water pipe, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the University of Trnava Digging into the ...