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

It has been dated to the late first century ... If confirmed to be a soldier, "he could only have belonged to Legio VII ...

Senior Roman commanders were captured or killed, and some soldiers reportedly deserted and joined the invaders ... but this ...

The Late Roman Army by P Southern and KR Dixon (London, 1996) The Roman Soldier by GR Watson (London, 1969) The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD by G Webster (London ...

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 ... at the site in late October ...

Senior Roman commanders were captured or killed, and some soldiers reportedly deserted and ... but this made them vulnerable to late spring and early summer moisture deficits, and early summer ...