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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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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 ...
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 ...
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Mass grave of Roman soldiers tells gruesome tale of military disaster
A cheek piece from a Roman helmet was found to be from a type that became customary ... along with the deadly wounds found on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...