The legionaries were the elite (very best) soldiers. A legionary had to be over 17 years old and a Roman citizen. Every new recruit had to be fighting fit - anyone who was weak or too short was ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Researchers from Czechia and Germany examined a 14-kilogram clump of ancient Roman mail ... outside the Bonn legionary fortress in Germany. The findings suggest that soldiers stationed far from ...

While it is known this part of the Army went on to set ... paint a vivid picture of how the Roman occupation arrived in this part of the Midlands. "The Ninth Legion, nearly 6,000 men, would ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique grave of a Roman soldier “from year 0” in the Netherlands, shedding light on the ancient civilisation’s presence in the region. The 2,000-year-old ...

The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ‘legions’. Each legion had between 4,000 and 6,000 soldiers. A legion was divided into groups of 80 men called ‘centuries’.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique grave of a Roman soldier “from year 0” in the Netherlands, shedding light on the ancient civilisation’s presence in the region. The 2,000-year-old grave was ...