The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than ...

He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge.

straight weapon that was used by Celtic auxiliaries in the Roman army during the 1st century C.E. By the 3rd century C.E., it became common in the Roman infantry. The Roman cavalry also used a ...

(A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

Rome's "Crisis of the Third Century" I enjoy Pen & Sword's ancient military histories ... reconstituted the eastern Roman army (again, around 60,000), intending to punish Sapur for new aggressions.

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...

He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge.