While the man had been buried at a military cemetery and was assumed to be a soldier or an enslaved gladiator, his DNA was ...

I wiped off the clay and saw a picture of Caesar standing over vanquished ... These coins belonged to someone—possibly a high-ranking Roman soldier who came over during the invasion of Britain ...

Children could write a letter from a soldier to his family ... Hughes explores the lives of Roman women and looks at genuine artefacts to piece together a picture of what their life was like.

It was here, in 1953, that laborer Harry Martindale was working away when a whole platoon of Roman soldier ghosts marched ... except that I had to take a picture of the place for National ...

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front ...

index. $30.00. ISBN: 022675023X Well written, Gladius is a necessary work for scholars of Roman history, but will also prove interesting and informative reading for the arm chair historian as well.