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 ...

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 ...

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

As the Roman Empire expanded, the military was stationed ... After all, the Roman army was a terribly efficient machine that “demanded huge amounts of material and complex supply mechanisms ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity sheds new light on how Roman soldiers maintained and repaired their chainmail armor on the empire's northern frontiers. Researchers from Czechia ...

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

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

(A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.