Archeologists discovered a heavily handled penis pendant at a fort erected near northern England landmark Hadrian’s Wall and believe it was used by a Roman soldier as a good luck charm.

The animal’s human rider, a Roman soldier, buried the creature in a shallow grave. As a parting gift, the soldier tucked a few mementos into the crook of one of the horse’s legs: two jugs and ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall ... Quite (possibly) dropped there by the soldier or mason who built the wall,” Andrew Birley, archaeologist and ...

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

During the excavation, archaeologists unearthed stamped bricks from the Roman legion groups XIV and XV, along with small bronze pieces, ceramics, and coins. “They prove the great strategic ...

Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of ...

In one case, a soldier retained a spear tip embedded in ... He added that Germanic tribes had defeated a Roman legion near modern Vienna in 92 CE, as noted by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Little remained of the Celtic horde, which was no surprise against a Roman legion. Though this particular ... My most trusted tribune, Trajan, marched up the hill still in half-skin, wearing ...

Just weeks before Holy Week processions return to Malta’s streets, a Żejtun family is appealing for information after a Roman soldier costume, treasured for decades and worn annually during ...

“There are a few plausible scenarios,” Barbour said. The brooch likely arrived in Scotland “on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s northernmost frontier ...