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Dr. Joseph Wegner, curator of the Philadelphia-based Penn Museum, recently discovered a groundbreaking discovery. (Credit: Joseph Wegner of Penn Museum)
Archaeologists recently made a huge discovery. They found the tombs of the ancient Roman masses dating back to a first-century advertisement under a soccer field in Vienna.
The necropolis was discovered last October by a construction crew working in the simmered Vienna area. The discovery was unknown to the world until the Vienna Museum announced it on April 2nd.
The 129 bodies, presumably a mixture of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribes, were found in total. The dislocated bone was also found on the site. In other words, the Associated Press reported that the bodies of as many as 150 victims have been found.
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It is also the tomb of the first known masses of the Roman soldiers and Germanic tribes of Vienna.
Construction crews discovered the bodies of about 150 ancient fighter jets under a soccer field in Vienna. (A. slonek/novetus by AP | Reiner Riedler, Wien Museum via AP)
What made the discovery particularly unusual was the fact that no Roman soldiers were found, experts said.
They said soldiers were usually cremated until the third century.
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“In the context of Roman warfare, there are no comparable finds of fighter jets,” the excavation leader told Michaela Binder, as the Vienna Museum shared.
“In Germany there is a huge battlefield where weapons were found.”
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“But finding the dead — it’s unique to the whole of Roman history.”
Many Roman soldiers were cremated after the battle. We discovered a recent mass cemetery in Vienna, Austria, and it is very rare. (Reiner Riedler, via Wien Museum via AP)
The victims were all males, and their bodies were accidentally scattered, implying that they were quickly abandoned.
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Experts were also able to identify head, pelvis and torso injuries from the bones.
Experts were able to identify several different types of wounds on the body. (A. slonek/novetus via ap)
“They have the wounds of various battles that eliminate execution. It’s really a battlefield,” Vienna archaeologist Christina Adler Welf said, as the AP reported.
“I have wounds from the sword, from spears, from blunt trauma.”
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Archaeologists also consulted artifacts, including guardians of armor and helmet cheeks, using carbon-14 dating to determine the age of carbon.
“The most likely theory at this point is that this is related to the Danube campaign of the Domitian Emperor. It is in the 86-96 Gregorian calendar,” Adler Welf said.
Artifacts containing armored shields were found between the bodies. (via A. oecsi/novetus, ap)
Scientists said one victim has been identified as a Roman warrior so far, but bone testing will continue.
Archaeologists want to draw richer pictures of soldiers and how each of them fought.
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Experts at the Vienna Museum shared a public presentation of last week’s details.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
