Mass serious of the Roman Empire found under the Vienna football field

Under a football field in a Vienna district along the Danube, archaeologists found a serious mass dating from the time when the Roman Empire was fighting against the Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago, experts announced this week.

The tomb was discovered in October by a construction company renovating the field in the simmer district of Vienna, a team of archaeologists and historians from Vienne Museum by announcing its conclusions. The extraordinary discovery was linked to what they called a “catastrophic” military event, perhaps one where the Roman troops were seriously defeated and fled the site quickly.

Radiocarbon dating retraced the bones at around 80 to 234 AD – a period during which more than a dozen Roman emperors governed, including Domitian and Trajan, who collided with former Germanic in the region. An analysis of other elements found in the grave, including an iron dagger, lance points, a scale armor and a piece of pommel in a helmet, helped confirm the period.

Near the foot of a skeleton, archaeologists also discovered shoe nails from distinctive Roman military shoes called Caligae.

The discovery of these skeletal remains is extremely rare, experts declared, in part because the ancient Romans almost exclusively practiced cremation until the third century AD

“For all of the average Europe since the first century, we have no human leftover unruted and not created,” said Michaela Binder, the main anthropologist of the project. “So, apart from the military aspect, it is an absolute unique chance to study the history of people’s life in the first century AD”