About 1,500 years ago, a powerful leader in present-day Denmark buried enough weapons and supplies to equip a small army. The ...

Experts believe that these swords clearly prove that the Roman military was present in the area during the second and third centuries. "People famously asked, 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'" ...

The swords the Romans carried were called a gladius ... and tools for digging ditches and constructing buildings and fortifications. The Roman army had long, well-organised supply lines that ...

Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius ... His son, Caligula, had been born in an army camp and was a mascot to the Roman legions. At first, the arrival of ...

they had the best weapons and the best armour. When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from ...

most of these were recovered from Roman military sites or graves. The only other Roman sword that, like this sword, may be classed as 'accidental loss' was found near Chichester. A Roman soldier ...

During the Iron Age, between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago, a chieftain buried an arsenal of weapons sufficient to equip a small ...