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

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Huddled against the biting cold, many of the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the army of the Roman Republic had served under Caesar for much of the previous decade. They had witnessed the honing of ...

Editors Armstrong and Fronda have collected seventeen papers by fifteen scholars examining the various aspects of war and military service in the Roman Republic. The book opens with an essay by ...

The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment which included ... Soldiers swore an oath of allegiance - a promise to serve the republic and later the emperor. Once they had joined ...

Commemorating the vassalisation of the Nabataean Kingdom to the Roman Republic, the Nabataean King ... In the eastern provinces, Roman army units often contained a few camel riders, who were ...

Originally published in 2018, and now available in paperback, in The Army of the Roman Republic, Prof Sage (University of Cincinnati, Emeritus) gives us a survey of the evolution and history of Roman ...

BCE, ancient Rome witnessed one of the most infamous betrayals in history, the assassination of Julius Caesar. Known as the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on Roman politics of the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus and how the reaction to them helped destabilise the Republic.