A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

Once they had joined the army, they had to serve for 25 years! And if they ran away, or failed to do their duty, they could be killed. There were different types of soldiers in the Roman army and ...

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

Roberto Cavaleiro has been resident in Portugal since 1989 and possesses dual Portuguese/British nationality. Now in his 10th ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of approximately 150 Roman soldiers during renovation work on a football pitch in ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes, the museum said. An X-ray of the scabbard of a rusted and corroded iron dagger revealed typical Roman decorations of ...

who has written on a broad range of topics in military history, such as The War of the Triple Alliance and Armies of Early Colonial America, applies his tested ability to combine evidence from history ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman ... the nails used in distinctive Roman military shoes known as caligae. The most indicative clue ...

Originally published in 2018, and now available in paperback, in The Army of the Roman Republic, Prof Sage (University of Cincinnati, Emeritus) gives us a survey of the evolution and history of Roman ...