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 ...

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 ...

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 of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL). This object, dating back to the 3rd or 4th ...