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

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 ...

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...

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 ...

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 ...

So if you were a Roman soldier or a Roman general you would be very concerned about the enormous toll on the attacking army. The irony, of course, is that when the soldiers breached the walls ...

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 ...

Researchers believe the brooch came north with Roman soldiers, possibly as a ritual offering or battle trophy.

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front ...

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 ...

Later Roman authors provide more detail ... The cinaedus is described as a soldier of great size but with a cracked voice and mincing walk. After pleading permission in a stereotypically lisping ...

“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 ...