The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

A Roman soldiers takes us on a tour of a Roman barracks. We see where the soldiers ate and slept. They had a tough training schedule, including a 26 mile run every month. This clip also describes ...

Perched atop a Spanish hillside, this site had held a double surprise for archaeologists for centuries. In 2021, ahead of a planned solar panel installation, a preventive excavation near the town ...

archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old burial belonging to a Roman soldier named Flaccus. The find was made at the Raadhuisplein, or town hall square. It is an important site because of its ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 2,000-year-old grave from a Roman settlement in Heerlen, Netherlands. The burial belonged to a soldier named Flaccus, and it is now considered the “most ...

A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius ...

“There are a few plausible scenarios,” Barbour said. The brooch likely arrived in Scotland “on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s northernmost frontier” and passed to ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.

An ancient Roman villa in northern France also had a ... 25, 1908 — and the body was identified as a German soldier from World War I, researchers said, confirmed by the discovery of his ...