A payslip belonging to a Roman auxiliary soldier, posted on Twitter back in March 2019 by archaeologist Joanne Ball, shows that the imperial grunt was left penniless immediately after getting paid ...

The honour of carrying the standard was reserved for the standard bearer. For nearly a thousand years, the Roman army was the most feared fighting force in the world, and it helped to grow the ...

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 ...

Because the playground sat near a known ancient Roman military camp, the team expected to find at least something. But what reemerged surprised them. At the playground, archaeologists found several ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

the Roman army was the strongest force in Britain. And while they were fighting each other, the tribes were unlikely to team up and fight the Romans. This was standard practice throughout the ...