Archaeologists in England’s Cotswolds region have unearthed a large Iron Age settlement—and the ruins of what could be a ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental ...

In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, ...

In fact, so many shoes have been found across the two sites, the Vindolanda archaeological trust maintains a "shoe specialist ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

Archaeologists discovered a Roman soldier’s wrist purse in South Moravia, believed to be the oldest ever found in the Czech ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

In his encyclopedic GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, 19 Roman soldiers rushed into a cramped underground tunnel, prepared to defend the Roman-held Syrian city of Dura-Europos from an army of Persians digging to undermine the ...

A cadre of cocksure Roman soldiers deployed in 207 A.D. to repair parts of Hadrian’s Wall—the 73-mile-long stone fortification erected to keep Celtic Britons at bay in the Roman empire’s ...