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 new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force ... The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’. He carried a short rod, to show his importance.

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Roman world from the Late Republic to the sixth-century empire of Justinian and his successors. For each broad period developments in troop-types, ...