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

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

The Roman army conquered a huge empire ... The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’. Image caption, Artillery soldiers fired giant catapults called ‘onagers’.

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

The Romans needed a powerful army to invade foreign lands ... A hundred! A century is a hundred! MUM: Normally yes but a Roman century was 80 men. The officers, who were in charge and gave orders ...

A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

The remains of a Roman sandal — dating back around 2,000 years — were recently discovered in Germany, officials said. The ancient footwear was found in a well during an excavation of a ...