Many of the greatest wonders of times past were discovered by accident. French soldiers stumbled across the Rosetta Stone in ...

Among others, the Talmud mentions that 3rd-century Rabbi Eleazar, the son of Lag B’Omer’s hero Shimon Bar Yochai, also served in the Roman forces for a period. “The army was also a path to ...

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.

With the scale of the military problems Rome faced in the third century, the Roman army grew larger. By the time of ...

Rome's "Crisis of the Third Century" I enjoy Pen & Sword's ancient military histories ... reconstituted the eastern Roman army (again, around 60,000), intending to punish Sapur for new aggressions.

Experts from the Canton of Graubünden believe it dates back to the first century B.C. Researchers ... embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army which ...

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.

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.

The skeletons, belonging to a military cavalry unit stationed in the area in the 2nd century A.D., offer a unique insight into the use of these animals in the Roman army and their relationship with ...

Crews working on a housing project in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart recently uncovered a second-century ... Roman calvary. The site was a known military stronghold for the Roman army.

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... Four years later, the Roman army had crushed the revolt, but had also destroyed the temple. The sacred treasures were ...

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.