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

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.

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

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

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 ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes, the museum said. An X-ray of the scabbard of a rusted and corroded iron dagger revealed typical Roman decorations of ...

The extraordinary discovery was tied to what they called a “catastrophic” military event, possibly one where Roman troops were badly defeated and fled the site quickly. Radiocarbon dating ...