The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.

During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one another. Archaeologists quickly arrived on the scene and began their own ...