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The missing Roman legion: How 5,000 elite soldiers vanished without a trace

Imagine commanding a battle-tested force of five thousand heavily armed elite warriors, only to have the entire group ...

Mysterious Roman fort discovered in remote area could prove ancient legend has roots in reality

Mark Merrony, an archaeologist at Oxford, told Fox News Digital the Pembrokeshire Roman fort could have held 1,000 auxiliary ...

Ancient Roman treasure unearthed at military base, two coins aren't what they seem

The Roman coin hoard on Gotland features five emperors and four empresses from the second century A.D., but two coins may be ancient fakes from Ukraine.
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games

The tokens are roughly the size of a half-dollar coin and feature markings etched into their surfaces. Karabük University Archaeologists digging in the ancient Roman city of Hadrianopolis, located ...
Ecoticias

Roman soldiers guarded a German forest fort for 150 years, and archaeologists digging just inches below the forest floor have found a temple of Mars and a pin hi…

Mars found beside a Roman fort in Germany's Taunus forest, with 2 votive stones, a Victoria statuette and a brooch hinting at ...
newser

Ancient Roman Military Camp Found in Spain

A stash of ancient ammunition has pinpointed where a Roman army camp once hunkered down in Spain's Pyrenees—and where local fighters sprang a deadly trap, reports Archaelogy.org. Archaeologists in the ...
Newsweek

‘Extraordinary’ Roman Fort Discovered That Likely Housed 500 Soldiers

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort ...
Ancient Origins

Stabbed Again and Again, Then Dropped Down a Well: Leiden Reopens a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Cold Case

A skeleton found in 1977 at the bottom of a well at the early Roman fort of Velsen 1 shows further evidence of stab wounds, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Souvenir Bowl May Have Commemorated an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Service at Hadrian’s Wall. It Was Discovered on a Spanish Farm 1,900 Years Later

A virtual reconstruction of the Berlanga Cup 3D Stoa—Archaeology and Heritage / Cambridge University Press under CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists may have identified the origins of a recently discovered 1,900 ...
Popular Science

Ancient Roman mass grave shows its army’s ethnic diversity

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Phys.org

Our pay is called a 'salary,' but were Roman soldiers really paid in salt?

Every other Wednesday, like clockwork, my salary arrives in my bank account. By Thursday, most of it is gone. Recently, as I contemplated its biweekly appearance and disappearance, I started thinking ...
History

10 Innovations That Built Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome brought a wide swath of innovation to the world. Civil engineering feats such as roads, bridges and aqueducts helped to grow and fuel the fast-spreading empire, with the help of ancient ...