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Archeologists discovered a heavily handled penis pendant made out of jet at a fort erected near northern England landmark Hadrian’s Wall and believe it was used by a Roman soldier as a good luck ...
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 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.
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.
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River in a furious battle. Almost two thousand years later ...
George Ellul, now 61, was just 15 years old when his parents, Paul and Emmanuelle, bought him the elaborate Roman solider costume for 180 Maltese lira (around €419).
Archaeologists stumble on rare remains of Roman soldier 'turned to glass' by Vesuvius ... (Image: PierPaolo Petrone) Like Pompeii, Herculaneum was obliterated when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
An ancient Roman villa in northern France also had a burial from relatively recent history. D. Delaporte French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Decades after an ancient ...
The discovery of the grave of a Roman soldier named Tiberius Panthera, member of a cohort of Syrian archers stationed in Palestine in the first century, might support those ancient rumors.
Archaeologists have unearthed a unique grave of a Roman soldier “from year 0” in the Netherlands, shedding light on the ancient civilisation’s presence in the region. The 2,000-year-old ...