Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dragon Standard (Draco) from Legion: Life in the Roman Army, at the British Museum - Koblenz Landesmuseum A suave bronze head of ...

When most people imagine Roman soldiers, they picture the famous legionaries wearing segmented armor and red cloaks. But over time, Roman soldiers began to look very different. By the late Roman ...

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

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The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman military base that once housed thousands of soldiers. The base is located at the foot of Tel Megiddo—the site of an ancient city in ...

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...