Researchers excavated the deposits of coins and jewelry in the Netherlands, near the German border Sonja Anderson The cache included swords, spears ... stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned ...

The discovery reinforces the theory that Hadrianopolis was not only a cultural center but also a strategic military enclave of the Roman Empire. Hadrianopolis. During the Roman period, the ancient ...

An ancient Roman villa in northern France also had a ... 1908 — and the body was identified as a German soldier from World War I, researchers said, confirmed by the discovery of his ...

It's believed they were taken by soldier as "spoils of war". There were also 360 Roman coins discovered, and it's the first time a Roman-British coin hoard of this kind has been found in mainland ...