Researchers from Czechia and Germany examined a 14-kilogram clump of ancient Roman mail armor discovered in 2012 during excavations in a civilian settlement outside the Bonn legionary fortress in ...

Old soldiers often retired together in military towns, called ‘colonia’. An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries ...

The length of service, combined with the trials of military life ... had been born in an army camp and was a mascot to the Roman legions. At first, the arrival of Germanicus and his family ...

The rebels burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St Albans) and several military posts ... 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and slaughtered the Roman Ninth Legion.

Old soldiers often retired together in military towns, called ‘colonia’. An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries ...