Archaeologists excavating a 4,900-year-old fortress in Almendralejo, southwestern Spain, have uncovered the burial of a man who may have been a Roman soldier. The solitary, shallow grave was ...

In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, ...

In his encyclopedic GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military ...

In fact, so many shoes have been found across the two sites, the Vindolanda archaeological trust maintains a "shoe specialist ...

Opinion: Was Jesus the son of a Roman soldier named Panthera? An expert on early Christianity raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus and weighs in on how to view miracles and on her own ...

At the playground, archaeologists found several ancient Roman waste pits, including one with shoe fragments, officials said. A Roman soldier likely threw away the worn-out shoe about 2,000 years ago.

George Ridgway (inset) and some of the huge hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins he discovered while metal detecting at a site near his home in Suffolk, England. George Ridgway I had found it near a ...

According to tradition, Maurice was a Roman soldier who was martyred for the Christian faith in the late third century. By the early 10th century, he had become the patron saint of the Holy Roman ...

Archaeologists found the skeletons of 19 Roman soldiers, complete with all their weapons and armor — including the scutum — in a tunnel under a fortification tower.

Roman Soldiers Found Buried In Their Own Tunnel May Have Been Killed By Chemical Warfare "This wasn't a pile of people who had been crowded into a small space and collapsed where they stood.

Jerusalem Post / Archaeology / Archaeology Around the World Roman soldier found buried face down with a dagger on his back in newly revealed fortress in Spain The nearly complete skeleton, with ...