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 ...

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

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than 100 people.

mind you), and hobnails from shoes that were made with leather and studded with nails, a type of footwear used by Roman soldiers. The museum wrote that the dagger was instrumental in the dating ...

shoe nails, and a fragmented iron dagger. The dagger proved especially useful in dating the remains. X-ray images of the sheath revealed typical ancient Roman decorations: silver wire inlays that ...