Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing ...

Analysis of sewer drain sediments at Vindolanda fort has revealed that Roman soldiers suffered from intestinal worms and ...

Nearly two thousand years after it was carved, a Roman-era stele came to light not through a formal excavation but during ...

In 1796, while scampering through fields behind his house in Ribchester, England, a young boy stumbled upon a hoard of over ...

Those findings paved the way for a series of large, on-the-ground surveys conducted between 2024 and 2025. A team of ...

Construction work for a new school in Frankfurt, Germany, has exposed a unique Roman sanctuary, part of the ancient town of ...

A U.S. tank unit will be deployed to Romania to enhance the “quality and lethality” of the American presence there, a top ...

The mansion's foundations and floors are likely well-preserved, according to geophysical surveys. The discovery provides new insights into the Roman occupation in the region ...

In late December 2025, two separate security incidents in Nigeria were widely described in public discussion as a “bombing of Nigeria.” In reality, the events were operationally and geographically ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life miserable. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers analyzing ancient sewer drains ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...