Romans are set to descend on York as a popular festival returns to the city. Re-enactors will take to the city as part of the Eboracum Roman Festival. The festival, which runs from May 16 to 31, aims ...

In 9 AD, three Roman legions marched deep into Germania believing the region was pacified. Instead they walked into one of the most devastating ambushes in Roman history, as Arminius united the tribes ...

Tradition holds that the soldier who pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion came to believe in him and is honored today as ...

He-Man prepares to renew hostilities with Skeletor in a live-action reboot of the toy-inspired cartoon. But does he still ...

Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Richard Fernando Buxton taught students in Block 5 about how warfare was conducted ...

Two WWE superstars earned championship matches at WrestleMania 42 on Saturday night. Liv Morgan and Roman Reigns won the women’s and men’s Royal Rumble matches, respectively and will now be able to ...

TORRINGTON - Watertown football coach Shawn Stanco said if his team was going to kick off to begin The Battle for the Helmet game against Torrington, he was going onside kick. Instead, the Raiders ...

The Testudo wasn't used quite as often as you might have expected if you were simply going by film and TV. However, if you were marching up towards the walls of an enemy fortification and wanted to ...

The ancient world had some impressive military forces. For example, Egypt was famed for its chariots and Greece for its navy. The Romans? They were famous for their foot troops, the legionaries. Yet ...

The helmet was discovered at the site of the Battle of the Egadi Islands. Sicilian Region Among the Egadi Islands, off Sicily’s west coast, divers have discovered a remarkably preserved Roman helmet.

Marine archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman-era helmet from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea that was lost during an ancient naval battle in 241 BC. The military helmet, in an “extraordinary ...