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

Credit: AP/Eduardo Verdugo The hats of the sayones, meant to imitate the helmets worn by Roman soldiers, are the dominant ...

A tourist asked to be whipped by a local wearing a Roman soldier costume as part of an Easter tradition in the Philippines. The holidaymaker visited Marinduque province to witness the annual Holy Week ...

a helmet cheek piece, shoe nails, and a fragmented iron dagger. The dagger proved especially useful in dating the remains. X-ray images of the sheath revealed typical ancient Roman decorations ...

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly 150 males. Experts believe the site was likely a battlefield where a ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than 100 people.

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

An analysis of other items found in the grave, including an iron dagger, lance points, scale armor and a cheek piece of a helmet ... study the lives of normal Roman soldiers.” ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century ... That was cross-checked against the known history of relics found in the grave — armor, helmet cheek protectors and the ...