A 2,000-year-old Roman military camp has been discovered high in the mountains of Switzerland. The camp was connected to an ancient battle that raged between the Romans and a local tribe.

He defeated the Romans again in Asculum 279 BCE (this was the battle that gave us the phrase “Pyrrhic victory”). Pyrrhus later met the Romans at Beneventum (southern Italy) in 275 BCE.

The Roman siege of Masada, which occurred at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War, reportedly lasted only “a few weeks,” overturning previous beliefs that the battle stretched out over ...

This Roman interest in foreign, wild animals was the basis of the initial beast spectacles which began in 275BC with an exhibition of captured war elephants.

Another image of the Roman gaming tokens found in Hadrianopolis. Credit: Karabük Üniversitesi According to Dr. Çelikbaş, these games were not mere pastimes but tools designed to teach military tactics ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...