Archaeologists in Germany have discovered a tiny Roman lock, believed to be the smallest of its kind in Europe.

But he was stopped by a confederation of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribes ... itself during a series of disastrous reigns in the third century. During this time, severe economic crises weakened ...

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s ... The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’. He carried a short rod ...

We have previously discussed the Crisis of the 3rd Century, that period of antiquity also known as the Anarchy of the 3rd ...

The Roman "scutum" was a tall, semi-cylindrical shield most popular from the fourth century B.C. to the ... to a high-ranking Roman soldier and "only the third of its kind known to exist ...

The discovery of a miniature Roman lock, smaller than a one-euro coin, was presented in Münster by the Regional Association ...