Archaeologists say ?catastrophic military event? took place at site where 129 bodies have been found so far
As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a football pitch in Vienna last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: a heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the first-century Roman empire, most likely the bodies of warriors killed in a battle involving Germanic tribes.
This week, after archaeological analysis, experts at the Vienna Museum gave a first public presentation of the grave ? linked to ?a catastrophic event in a military context? and evidence of the first known fighting in that region.
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