Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

Ukrainian drones are strewing the roads with four-pointed metal weapons designed so that whichever way they fall, one point is always upwards. The name caltrop comes from the Latin for ‘heel ...

The letters include the names of three ancient Roman soldiers: Haosus, Lucinius and Petronius, Osypińska told Science in Poland. “In the correspondence, Petronius asks Lucinius (stationed in ...

The ancient Roman gold plaque found at the Gonio-Apsaros fortress. Photo from Natalia Lockley via the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman military base that once housed thousands of soldiers. The base is located at the foot of Tel Megiddo—the site of an ancient city ...

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

A tenth of the Roman army was based in Britain, and that makes the wall a great source of military material, he says. But it’s not all about the soldiers, as excavations are showing.

Archaeologists digging in the ancient Roman city of Hadrianopolis, located near Eskipazar in modern-day Turkey, have unearthed two bone tokens dating to the fifth century C.E. that they suspect ...

The skeleton was discovered 20 years ago in Eboracum, or present-day York. Eboracum was an important Roman fortress and city in the Roman province of Britannia from A.D. 71 to 400.

Archaeologists uncovered ancient military fortifications from Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Egypt's Tell Abu Sefeh, revealing strategic defenses that protected Egypt's eastern frontier.