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

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

Adorned with a silver pin and a sword, he may have been a Roman soldier — but large nails near his neck, back and feet offer tantalizing evidence that he was restrained at death.

This legionary sword was found at the Roman fort of Segontium, Caernarfon, in March 1879. It dates from the first century and consists of a metal blade and ivory hilt.

However, an arch-shaped grave contained the remains of an individual who had been buried with weapons, including a bent spatha — a type of long, straight sword from the late Roman period (A.D ...

Historical reconstructions set during Roman times were a popular staple of early European cinema, culminating in the 1914 epic “Cabiria,” still considered one of the most lavish films ever made.

While initially thought to be body armor or a thigh guard, the relic was only recently recognized for its true function in the 1990s. As worn by a Roman legionary, the armored sleeve would have ...

In the dense forests of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, experts from the INVENTUM Association discovered a nearly 2000-year-old Roman sword. According to Turystyka WP, the find was made in the ...

Amidst the dense forests of the Kraków-Częstochawa Upland in southern Poland, a pair of metal detectorists searching for relics from World War II stumbled upon a Roman sword dating back almost ...

Mentioned first in a 1 AD biography of Alexander the Great, the gladius sword was the standardized weapon for the feared Roman foot soldiers. It was shot and double-edged, which made it a ...