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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

so it’s likely that it came north of Hadrian’s Wall on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s ...

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.