In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

Archaeologists solved the mystery of the ruins of the Desolate Castle, determining that the mysterious site on the Danube ...

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

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

At that time, the Danube formed the northern border of the Roman Empire, placing the find in a period of military conflict. Preliminary dating placed the remains in the first or second century CE ...

Located in the Simmering district of Vienna, the mass grave holds the intertwined remains of at least 129 individuals. The excavation team also uncovered numerous dislocated bones, suggesting the ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes ... This was dated to between the mid-1st century and early 2nd century AD. There were also several pieces of scale ...

the nails used in distinctive Roman military shoes known as caligae. The most indicative clue came from a rusty dagger of a type in use specifically between the middle of the 1st century and the ...