When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of approximately 150 Roman soldiers during renovation work on a football pitch in ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

they had the best weapons and the best armour. When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a huge Roman grave under a soccer field in Vienna that is believed to be from the first century A.D.

The soldiers were the best trained, they had the best weapons and the best armour. The Roman army conquered a huge empire. A Roman soldier could march 20 miles a day, wearing all his armour and ...

The men were probably robbed of their weapons, since only a small number ... These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes, the museum said. An X-ray of the scabbard ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions ... and kill expertly with all the weapons they carried. The toughest postings for soldiers ...

and weapons, as well as equipment and gear belonging to soldiers. Included amongst the finds were slingshots embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army ...

"There are huge battlefields in Germany where weapons were found ... the nails used in distinctive Roman military shoes known as caligae. The most indicative clue came from a rusty dagger of ...