Quote of the Day: Skeletons of the Roman Empire Are Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field
'The unfortunate conclusion: Humans have not become any wiser.'
MARTIN MOSSER, a member of the Vienna Department of Urban Archaeology who was part of a project that found rare remains of Roman soldiers traced to A.D. 80 to 234. He was saying that the horror of war has not changed.
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