The Romans needed a powerful army to invade foreign lands ... For fighting at a distance, a Roman soldier would throw a long, iron-tipped spear, called a pilum, made to bend when it hit the ...

Amidst the dense forests of the Kraków-Częstochawa Upland in southern Poland, a pair of metal detectorists searching for relics from […] ...

Dr. Pearson’s book addresses one of the most significant gaps in our knowledge of the Roman Army, its central administrative structure, the bureaucracy that underpinned the Roman military machine.

The Roman army gets its charm from a powerful ... Yes, your proud flock of cavalry units will go down within seconds against a spear-wielding enemy battalion, or a unit that uses pikes (just ...