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

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(CNN) — 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.