Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and ...

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

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

Radiocarbon analysis of artifacts such as an iron dagger, lance points, scale armor, a helmet cheek piece, and hobnailed sandals known as caligae, a standard Roman military footwear, helped ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

Carbon-14 analysis helped date the bones to between 80 and 130 A.D. That was cross-checked against known history of relics ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes ... There were also several pieces of scale armor, which became customary around 100 AD, the museum said.

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...