People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

An armoured shed lays between bones at an excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. A. Oecsi/Novetus ...

General view on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. (Reiner Riedler, Wien Museum via AP) ...

General view on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. (Reiner Riedler, Wien Museum via AP) ...

A skull with sharp trauma found at the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century A.D. in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria. AP/March 27, 2025 ...

People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century AD, in the Simmering district of Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.