The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

An exceptionally preserved 30-pound Roman chainmail, found in 2012 in Bonn, Germany, reveals how ancient ... Roman army recycled their metal equipment in various ways, but iron mail armor could ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions ... He also carried a 'pilum' (javelin), a helmet, armor, shield and a pack with supplies.

The Emperor and the Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 235 by B Campbell (Oxford ... Dr Jon Coulston is a lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.