An unexpected discovery occurred during the renovation of a Vienna football field stadium, when construction workers found a mass grave dating back to the 1st-century Roman Empire. And it's also ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

An armoured shed lays between bones at an excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. A. Oecsi/Novetus ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap o ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...