With their superior technology and organization—including chariots, iron swords and a permanent army—the Assyrians ... great empires of the day—Roman and Parthian—the old Mesopotamian ...

During four centuries of Han rule, China expanded its frontiers in all directions and established trade links with the Roman Empire ... Chen She gathered a rebel army that marched on Xianyang.

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in Vienna’s neighboring town of Simmerling. Archeologists from the Vienna ...

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Experts from the Vienna City Archaeology Department and the archaeological service provider Novetus GmbH revealed that the human remains likely belonged to soldiers who died during a battle ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...