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

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first public presentation of the grave – linked to ‘a catastrophic event in a military ...

Discovery of mass grave under football pitch changes what we know about the Roman Empire - The pit of bones suggests a hasty ...

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic ... was only an advisory body. However, it still had the right ...

The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they wanted to be consul. In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings.

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...