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Researchers believe the 47-centimeter-high sandstone relief, dating to around 213 AD, may symbolize the end of the Severan ...
Yair Whiteson, a 13-year-old aspiring archeologist living in Haifa, Israel, discovered an 1,800-year-old ring while hiking ...
Rocky, a nearly 2-year-old American bulldog, joined the division’s ranks this month at Fort Stewart, Ga., apparently becoming ...
Oxford Archaeology They used tile-hearths to evaporate the salt as the industry ramped up from the late 3rd Century onwards ... been the need to feed the Roman army, especially the soldiers ...
Roman outpostAn aerial view shows the excavated ruins of the third-century ... life in the Roman Army.) RSVPThis birthday party invitation, written in the early second century on a thin wooden ...
He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge.
Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...
even the second century, we find a significant increase, up to 8 or 10 percent of the bones are pigs, and no doubt these are being presented, by virtue of the presence of the Roman Army.
Until now. Bite marks found on the hip bone of a gladiator, known as 6DT19, who fought and died in Roman Britain in the 3rd century C.E. have been put forward as the first such proof.
A Roman settlement found in Bulgaria next to the Via Militaris ... possibly linked to the Gothic raids of the mid-3rd century AD. Archaeologists also found storage remains, such as large pithoi ...
Officially known as St. Valentine of Rome, the third-century Roman saint is traditionally commonly associated with "courtly love," according to Catholic Online. Not much is known about the man ...
In the 3rd century, Roman noblewoman Cecilia was martyred for her beliefs. Today, she's better known as the patron saint of music, which is basically the highest honour in all of history. St Cecilia ...