VIENNA — 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 grave dating ...

A treasure trove of metal artifacts, including a bronze Roman military helmet in an "extraordinary state of preservation," has been recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, researchers say.

Archaeologists researching a battlefield in Switzerland discovered a Roman military camp 7,000 feet above sea level. The camp is roughly 2,000 years old and ties to the Roman battlefield in the Colm ...

What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

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 grave dating to the 1st ...