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 ...

"As cremation burials were common in the European parts of the Roman Empire around 100 AD, body burials were an absolute exception, " she explained. "Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are ...

Archaeologists used radiocarbon analysis on artifacts like an iron dagger, lance points, scale armor, and a helmet cheek piece.

a mass grave dating back to the first century CE and Roman empire. The gravesite contained the skeletons of potentially over 150 soldiers. According to archeologists, the discovery is as dark as ...

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

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.