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

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 ... in the 16-foot-long pit.

Near the foot of one skeleton ... “We have the unique opportunity to study the lives of normal Roman soldiers.” Martin Mosser, an archaeologist for the Vienna Department of Urban Archaeology ...

Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork ... at the cemetery were gladiators, rather than soldiers or slaves, as initially thought,” said study ...