By bringing the sheer scope of the Roman frontier into focus ... and archaeologists have assumed Rome’s walls were military fortifications, designed to fend off barbarian armies and hostile ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

The discovery underscores the connection between Roman forts and surrounding ... significant along the German frontier, where "it was necessary for military units to become involved in the ...

Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions ... postings for soldiers were those at the frontiers of the Roman Empire, where legionnaires ...

Elton (Trent University) make a valuable contribution to the unusual field of Roman frontier ... economic, military, religious, cultural, ethnic, legal, and more. Elton tries, with considerable ...

These nails would have studded the underside of leather Roman military shoes ... which later led to the extension of the fortification line known as the Danube Limes under the emperor Trajan ...

Like the other frontier provinces, Rome was far away. Supplies and reinforcements took a long time to arrive, and the province was held by just three legions and a few forts. They managed to keep ...

The brooch likely arrived in Scotland “on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s northernmost frontier ... Roman military abandoned some of their forts in ...

Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ...