In 378 AD, the Battle of Adrianople became one of the worst disasters in Roman military history. Emperor Valens marched ...

The viral nature of the term “Roman Empire” makes it easy to forget the trend started because ancient Rome had one of the most unforgettable armies in history. A new show at the British Museum is ...

During a years-long excavation of an ancient battlefield in the Swiss Alps, one volunteer archaeologist decided to break off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sites each have the classic "playing card" shape of temporary Roman military camps. The defensive walls were made by piling up ...

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs. Reading time 2 minutes What would you do if, while ...

The life of a Roman soldier was full of risk, danger and camraderie, but it could also be beset with loneliness. Many soldiers joined in order to build a better future for themselves. We know this was ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman ...

Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology. Their paper, published in the journal ...

Imagine walking on a bed of 60 nails. That’s how Romans soldiers did it, a recent find in Haltern am See, Germany confirmed. Archaeologists unearthed one long-lost soldier’s 2,000-year old caliga shoe ...

After 70 CE, the Roman Tenth Legion (Legio X Fretensis) established its permanent camp amid the ruins of Jerusalem. For sixty ...