The current excavation has found one individual.

Further excavation of the site may reveal additional remains.

The Question Of The Attacker

This is the element of the story that has attracted the most popular interest and that the evidence is least equipped to answer with precision: who attacked Deultum?

Vagalinski, in his communications with Live Science, was careful to note that “it’s unclear which battle led to the individual’s death” while acknowledging that Deultum “faced many attacks from East Germanic tribes and Huns in the fourth and fifth centuries.” The preliminary date estimate of around A.D.

400 places the event in a period when both Gothic groups and early Hunnic raiding parties were active in the Balkan region.