What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...

Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda, located near Hadrian's Wall in northern England, were riddled with ...

View post: One of Huckberry's Most Popular Insulated Jackets Is Nearly $100 Off In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 ...

For more than 600 years, the chainmail worn by Roman soldiers was essential gear across the entire empire, no matter where a soldier was stationed. The further the frontier stretched from supply ...

The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in the first ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Archaeologists excavating a playground in Germany unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman soldier’s shoe, ovens and a game piece. Photo from LWL / B. Tremmel For archaeologists in Germany, the worn-out ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...

Several pairs of unusually large Roman shoes will be on display at the Roman Army Museum in Brampton, England, beginning Feb.

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first believed to be a cellar, but was determined to be a tomb after the discovery of ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall were infected by parasites that cause serious stomach upsets, reveals new research. An analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to the ...