Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

But every individual had suffered some sort of devastating injury—like wounds made by swords ... invaded the Roman Empire near the Danube border and wiped out an entire legion, according ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing ... weapons including spears, daggers, swords and iron bolts, suggests they were ...

Injuries from spears, daggers, swords, and bolt projectiles ... He added that Germanic tribes had defeated a Roman legion near modern Vienna in 92 CE, as noted by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Most sword and sandal movies are full of epic ... The disappearance of the famous Roman Ninth Legion is one of the most enduring mysteries in world history. Its fate has been investigated over ...

(The Trustees of the British Museum) Investigations have identified what appear to be sword impact marks ... Vespasian (whilst commander of a legion during the Roman conquest) is likely to ...

We know the names of very few Roman centurions and legionaries ... when the Belgian tribe of the Nervii attacked the legion under Quintus Cicero in their winter quarters in Nervian territory, Pullo, ...