Dr. Ashkenazi explains that with reliable estimates of the workload a Roman soldier could handle and knowledge that 6,000 to 8,000 soldiers were involved, they calculated how long it would take to ...

Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of ...

The 129 bodies, which were likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen, were found in total. Dislocated bones were also found at the site, meaning that as many as 150 victims' remains ...

The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in the ...

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(CNN) — The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat.

Nothing remains of this mysterious structure, though researchers posit it could have served as a bathhouse for Roman soldiers. Still, what’s been discovered offers clues. Among the finds is a ...

Perched on a hillside in Spain, this site had been hiding a double surprise from archaeologists for centuries. In 2021, during a preventive excavation ahead of a planned solar panel installation ...

Roman soldier found buried face down with a dagger on his back in newly revealed fortress in Spain. (photo credit: Tera S.L) Archaeologists excavating a 4,900-year-old fortress in Almendralejo ...

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 ...