During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes ... The destruction of an entire legion is included in reports of disastrous defeats, which later led to the extension ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

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 ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... It was divided up into groups called ‘legions’. Each legion had between 4,000 and 6,000 soldiers. A legion was further ...

Included amongst the finds were slingshots embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army which is known to have fought upon the battlefield below.

The recent discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of approximately 150 individuals in Simmering, Vienna, represents ...