Here’s how it works. The skeleton of a soldier found on a beach at Herculaneum, an ancient town that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, may be that of a rescue-party member sent ...

ROME — A 2,000-year-old skeleton belonged to a senior Roman soldier who was likely sent on a rescue mission to the doomed towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum as Mount Vesuvius erupted, scientists ...

the skeleton described in reports as being “little more than a boy” was the one that ended up with top billing. Although he was more likely a militiaman than a colonial soldier, they called ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a late-medieval era soldier, complete with his sword and boots, at the bottom of a lake in Lithuania. The 500-year-old skeleton was discovered during ...

Based on a set of three strange buttons and the skeleton's teeth, archaeologists believe they have identified the body of a foreign-born soldier. The Fortress of Louisbourg was established in 1713 ...

At the site of the Battle of Waterloo, archaeologists from the nonprofit Waterloo Uncovered have discovered a complete skeleton. The newly unearthed bones likely belong to a soldier who died ...