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Roman City with an 8,000-Seat Amphitheater Discovered in Austria
Archaeologists have identified a Roman city beneath fields near the Danube in Austria. Its planned streets cover 25 to 30 hectares, and a newly detected amphitheater could have seated around 8,000 spectators—an unexpected find beside a fort built for only about 500 soldiers. The city lies at Stein, in the municipality of St. Pantaleon-Erla. Researchers…
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Inside Hallstatt’s Salt Mountain, Iron Age Miners Left a 300-Meter Underground Archive
Exploratory drilling in Austria’s prehistoric Hallstatt salt mine has identified an extensive Iron Age mining complex made up of enormous chambers arranged beside and above one another. Their floors preserve tools, clothing, food remains and biological traces left by miners around 2,500 years ago, effectively turning the underground workings into an archive of prehistoric labor.…
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Vienna Mass Grave of 129 Men May Reveal an Unknown Roman-Era Battle
When the Vienna mass grave was uncovered beneath a soccer field in October 2024, the Roman period was not the initial interpretation. Radiocarbon dating changed that picture, placing the burial between about AD 80 and 130. Now, a new analysis of the skeletons suggests that at least 129 young men were killed in a single…