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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" ...
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 ...
The Roman Empire Loved by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon Never Existed
Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...
A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...
Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field
Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...
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Mass grave for fighters in Roman Empire-era battle revealed in Vienna
A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...
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A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...