One of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. As 5,000 of Rome's finest soldiers marched north to quell a rebellion, they suddenly realized they were ...

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

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The excavation area in Megiddo. Architectural remains of the 1,800-year-old base of the Roman Iron Legion were uncovered in a recent excavation carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the ...

In a new study published in Gladius, a pair of researchers from the University of Salamanca and the University of Leon ...

When you think of the Roman Empire, its great triumphs probably spring to mind first. Its grand conquest and expansion, its political systems, and its deep-rooted influence on everything from language ...