Roman soldier found buried face down with a dagger on his back in newly revealed fortress in Spain
The nearly complete skeleton, with severed feet and a pugio on the back, leaves the cause of death and burial a "real mystery ...
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What was life like in the Roman army?
Image caption, This modern painting shows Roman soldiers at Birdoswald Fort (Hadrian's Wall). A centurion watches men training. After a long day’s march, Roman soldiers had to build a camp ...
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games
The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...
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A Roman Dagger Found On A Swiss Hillside Just Helped Archaeologists Map An Ancient Battlefield
After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry ...
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How Julius Caesar Started a Big War by Crossing a Small Stream
Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns to conquer Gaul ... legion and govern the province of Illyria, in the modern-day Balkans. The proposal might have been ...
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What was life like in the Roman army?
Image caption, This modern painting shows Roman soldiers at Birdoswald Fort (Hadrian's Wall). A centurion watches men training. After a long day’s march, Roman soldiers had to build a camp ...