A gruesome ancient mass grave of over 150 soldiers was discovered near Vienna in Austria during soccer field renovations. The ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than ...

Archaeologists have said the remains of around 150 soldiers have been unearthed on the outskirts of Vienna in what they have described as an exceedingly rare find.

On Wednesday, after archaeological analysis, experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first public presentation ... “Within the context of Roman acts of war, there are no comparable finds of fighters ...

Roman mass grave discovered on Vienna outskirts reveals 150 soldiers from first-century battle. (photo credit: Reiner Riedler/Wien Museum) On April 2, 2025, the Vienna Museum presented its first ...

Archaeologists have identified one of the individuals as a Roman warrior. Reiner Riedler / Vienna Museum The remains were discovered in October by a construction crew renovating a soccer field in ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, morphed into an archaeological dig, and it wasn’t long before experts ...

Located in the Simmering district of Vienna, the mass grave holds the intertwined remains of at least 129 individuals. The excavation team also uncovered numerous dislocated bones, suggesting the ...

A man works on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria (Reiner Riedler, Wien Museum via AP) As construction crews ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) ...