A mass grave of the Roman Empire was found under the Vienna Football Stadium

Under a football stadium in the Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists found a mass grave dating back to the era when the Roman Empire had been fighting the Germanic tribes for nearly 2000 years.

A team of archaeologists and historians at the Vienna Museum said in announcing its results, the grave has been discovered in October by a construction company that renovates this field in the Vienna region. The extraordinary discovery was linked to what he called a “catastrophic” military event, and perhaps it happened as the Roman forces were poorly defeated and fled from the site quickly.

The number of bone radiation carbon follows approximately 80 to 234 AD – a period in which more than ten Roman emperors, including Domeitian and Sarajan, who clashed with the ancient Germanic people in the region. An analysis of other elements in the grave, including iron dagger, Lance points, scope shields and cheeks of the cheek, helped confirm the time period.

Near the foot of the skeleton, archaeologists also discovered the nails of shoes that came from Roman military shoes called Caligae.

Experts said that the discovery of these structural remains is very rare, as experts said, partly because the ancient Romans were carrying out the bodies almost exclusively until the third century AD.

“For all Central Europe since the first century, we do not have any unborn human remains.” “Therefore, regardless of the military side, it is a unique opportunity to study the history of people’s life in the first century AD.”

“We have a unique opportunity to study the lives of ordinary Romanian soldiers.”

Martin Mosser, an archaeologist in the Ministry of Urban Antiquities in Vienna, who worked in the project, said that since the Romans were interested in the ritual burial and bodies of the bodies, the remains began to tell the story of what happened to men buried there.

He said: “The insulting nature of the burial site along with the deadly wounds on each individual indicating a catastrophic military confrontation, may be followed by a hasty decline.”

There are historical accounts of the battles between the Germanic tribes and the Romans on the borders of the Roman Empire at the end of the first century, and the team called the grave the first material evidence of such fighting in the modern Vienna region. The team said that the remains may represent the beginning of the history of Metropolis – in theory that the Roman defeat could have led to the expansion of a small military base a few miles away.

“He suggests a tangible reason for the accumulation of Vindobona in a comprehensive legion of a comprehensive leg, which will take us to the founding moment in Vienna,” said Mr. Mousser, referring to the military base in Vienna, “referring to the military base.

The evidence was amazed. Mr. Mousser said that before this evidence appeared, there were no Roman evidence in this area of ​​the city. “We did not expect the Roman battlefield to be in the Vienna region,” he said.

Archaeologists found that the remains in the grave belong to at least 129 people, but the total number may exceed 150 as some bones were found.

All the dead who were examined so far were men, most of them between 20 and 30 years old, and many have had horrific injuries, especially in their skulls, receiving and basin.

Experts said the wounds appear to be weapons such as spears, daggers, swords and iron bolts of void weapons, such as arches, which suggested that the dead were not executed but perished in the battle.

The bodies seem to have been burned in haste, as many were found lying on their stomachs or sides with interlocking ends.

They were more likely to be professional Roman soldiers, according to David Potter, a professor of Greek and Roman history at the University of Michigan, who did not participate in the research.

He said: “I think we have another moment that reflects a Roman defeat and the burial of the forces after the truth.” defeat At the hands of the Germanic warriors in the Battle of Tiotoporg Forest on 9 AD.

He said: “You have a feeling of the nature of the battle from the injuries that these poor people suffered,” adding: “The other side had many big clubs.”

The team in Vienna said that its experts were only starting their research and that the DNA analysis could provide more information about the origins and conditions of living for people buried in the grave. The museum’s report also developed plans to look at the things in the grave.

On a personal level, Mr. Mosser said that the case struck a tendon. He said: “With many young people to buried irreversible, one of them definitely thinks about the horrific wars in the last past as well as the present.”