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

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 ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes, the museum said ... to shed light on the lives of the soldiers and their living conditions.

Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and so Roman inhumation burials from ...

"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization of a battle in the area of present-day Vienna.' ...

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

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" military event ...