The sword was found broken into three pieces, a condition that suggests it was deposited as part of a funerary offering. This ...

The army’s respect for Hadrian helped ... Ten years of frenzied digging uncovered a third-century Roman city frozen in time. Fragments of plaster still cling to mud-brick and stone walls ...

Old soldiers often retired together in military towns, called ‘colonia’. An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third ... in charge of a century was known ...

Spatha was also used by civilians during the second century ... swords clearly prove that the Roman military was present in the area during the second and third centuries. "People famously ...

LOM, BULGARIA—According to a Bulgarian National Radio report, traces of a Roman military site dated to the first century A.D. were unearthed at the site of ancient Almus in northwestern Bulgaria.