Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty ... His son, Caligula, had been born in an army camp and was a mascot to the Roman legions. At first, the arrival ...

An X-ray of the scabbard of a rusted and corroded iron dagger revealed typical Roman decorations of inlays of silver wire.

One of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. As 5,000 of Rome’s finest […] ...

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 ...

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...