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 ...

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

But as the empire began its long decline—Rome ... the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote of them in the first century B.C.) The Roman legion thrashed the tribe at the Celtic garrison of ...

"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization of a battle in the area of present-day Vienna.' ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of what are believed to be warriors from the 1st-century Roman Empire. Unearthed last October, the site has yielded evidence of a brutal battle, likely ...

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 ...

Whether they focus on the fall of the Roman republic in the late first century B.C. or of the Roman Empire in the late fifth century A.D. (or ahistorically mash the two into one), the same ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...