And that dating is super important. Around this time, under Emperor Domitian, the Roman Empire was locked in vicious clashes along its northern frontier—the Danube River—against the Germanic tribes.

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire.

The knife, believed to have originated from the Roman Empire, reinforces the idea of the persistence of cultural and commercial contacts between Germanic populations and the Romans. Local officials, ...

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

Around this time, under Emperor Domitian, the Roman Empire was locked in vicious clashes along its northern frontier—the Danube River—against the Germanic tribes. “Our preliminary ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

The German Catholic bishops have published a handout that offers guidance to pastors on blessings for couples in “irregular” ...

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

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" military event ...

2. The 129 bodies, which were likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen, were found in total. Dislocated bones were also found at the site, meaning that as many as 150 victims' remains ...

If any artist has been influential to me, simply because of what I read about with one of his paintings, it would be Anselm Kiefer—reading about the battles that took place in the forest between the ...