Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall ...

Channing Tatum leads troops into Roman Britain in The Eagle, 2011 - Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Legion, an exhibition opening at the British Museum next month, will explore the life of the ...

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs. reading time 2 minutes What would you do if, while ...

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The sites each have the classic "playing card" shape of temporary Roman military camps. The defensive walls were made by piling up rocks; small fortifications called tituli were built in front of its ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman military base that once housed thousands of soldiers. The base is located at the foot of Tel Megiddo—the site of an ancient city in ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman military encampment high atop a mountain range in the Swiss Alps located between eastern Switzerland and northern Italy, Live Science reported. A ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

Imagine walking on a bed of 60 nails. That’s how Romans soldiers did it, a recent find in Haltern am See, Germany confirmed. Archaeologists unearthed one long-lost soldier’s 2,000-year old caliga shoe ...

This Roman battle tactic stands as one of their greatest failures, remembered for its lack of foresight and disastrous ...