The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Hadrian’s Wall — the inspiration for Game of Thrones’ Wall — was built by the Romans in the second century A.D. in what is ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity sheds new light on how Roman soldiers maintained and repaired their chainmail armor on the empire's northern frontiers. Researchers from Czechia ...

A Roman soldiers takes us on a tour of a Roman barracks. We see where the soldiers ate and slept. They had a tough training schedule, including a 26 mile run every month. This clip also describes ...

They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive walls and stone forts to protect their new territory. We can still see ...

“The Dacian women torturing Roman soldiers? The weeping Dacians poisoning themselves to avoid capture? It’s like a TV series.” Or, Coarelli says, like Trajan’s memoirs. When it was ...

Here in Germany the low mound is all that’s left of a wall that once stood some ten feet tall, running hundreds of miles under the wary eyes of Roman soldiers in watchtowers. It would have been ...

The Romans occupied what's now Spain from 218 B.C. until roughly the fourth century A.D. The fortress burial included a " pugio " — the standard dagger of the Roman army — that suggests the dead man ...

Actors playing various roles, including Roman soldiers, biblical figures and Jesus Christ, wind their way through the streets. The costume was stored at his parent’s home in Żejtun, which is no ...

Antony and Cleopatra fled back to Alexandria but, within a year, the city was besieged by Roman soldiers. Rather than be captured and taken to Rome as prisoners, the two lovers committed suicide.