The Roman army was very well organised. It consisted of several distinct units. Each legion was spit into smaller parts of 480 men called a cohort. These centuries were then further split up into ...

After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry out a large-scale excavation. In the years since, they've found thousands ...

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 collection constitutes our first direct documentation of mixed military units in the ḥarrah, consisting of both Romans and local nomads," Salameen said. "This paper will edit these new ...

LOM, BULGARIA—According to a Bulgarian National Radio report, traces of a Roman military site dated to the first century A.D. were unearthed at the site of ancient Almus in northwestern Bulgaria.

Archaeological excavations in the Kaleto district of the Bulgarian town of Lom, which concluded recently, uncovered significant Roman military remains dating back to the 1st century AD ...

It was ubiquitous in Roman culture, with roots in the ancient ... in Hadrianopolis further solidifies the presence of a military unit here, as it is known that bone pieces were used to play ...

For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and the power of Rome was questioned. In 60 AD, Britain had been a Roman province for less than 20 years. Like the other frontier ...

Basalt fields in the Black Desert are the home of thousands of Safaitic, Greek and Latin inscriptions (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN – During the Roman occupation of the region, which gradually ...