“Here’s the border,” he says ... Scholars today ask a key question that must have crossed the minds of Roman soldiers shivering through long watches in the English rain: What were ...
Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an ...
Although sometimes rendered as Acritas, the name derives from the Greek word akron (plural akra), meaning border. That is, it is an analogous term to Limitanei, which was the name given to the troops ...
Roman soldiers did not wear socks but walked on ... a roughly 320-mile drive west of Berlin and near the border with the Netherlands.
Forts were camps where Roman soldiers lived. They had towers and were protected by walls and ditches. They were often built along the borders of the Roman Empire to help defend it. ANITA ...