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. The construction company ...

2. The 129 bodies, which were likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen, were found in total. Dislocated bones were also found at the site, meaning that as many as 150 victims' remains ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with ... that the human remains likely belonged to soldiers who died during a battle involving ancient ...

(CNN) — 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.

Sometime during the first century C.E., a fierce battle took place in what is now Vienna, Austria—likely between Roman soldiers and Germanic warriors. Afterward, the battered bodies of dozens ...

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 ...