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 said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and so Roman inhumation burials from ...

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 ...

Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 1781553343. The Roman Army in Transition English military historian and reenactor Elliott, author of The Last Legionary: Life as a Roman ...

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’.