This was the job of auxiliary soldiers who came from right across the Roman empire… places like Belgium, Spain, Greece, and even as far away as Africa. After 25 years working as an auxiliary ...

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 payslip belonging to a Roman auxiliary soldier, posted on Twitter back in March 2019 by archaeologist Joanne Ball, shows that the imperial grunt was left penniless immediately after getting paid ...

The discovery reinforces the theory that Hadrianopolis was not only a cultural center but also a strategic military enclave of the Roman Empire. Hadrianopolis. During the Roman period, the ancient ...

For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and the power ... They managed to keep a fragile control on Britain by working with client kings from local tribes, who would govern ...

For several weeks, conservators at the National Museums Scotland have been working tirelessly to reconstruct a 1,800-year-old segment of a Roman soldier’s armor that had been broken into a ...

This was the job of auxiliary soldiers who came from right across the Roman empire… places like Belgium, Spain, Greece, and even as far away as Africa. After 25 years working as an auxiliary ...