It was a cold and wet September day, 9 AD. Mist and drizzle covered three Roman legions and their followers traversing ...

Volunteer archaeologist and dental student Lucas Schmid discovered the silver and brass dagger in 2019. The discovery with a metal detector led to an excavation of a Roman battlefield. Further work ...

Radiocarbon dating and a coin minted in 251 AD found within the well confirmed the remains dated to the second half of the third century AD, perfectly coinciding with the Crisis of the Third Century ...

In 9 AD, Rome suffered one of her most devastating military defeats – an ambush in North-Western Germany that wiped out three legions on the march, in what they believed to be pacified territory.

Here’s What to Remember: For millennia, soldiers on battlefields the world over have spilled each other’s blood in the name of God, tribe, clan, king, and country. They have fought the enemy du jour, ...

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman ...

Italian re-enactors turned back the clock almost 2,000 years by setting up their Roman camp on Hadrian’s Wall. The Legio 1 Italica group arrived at Birdoswald Roman fort at Gilsland on the ...

Roman dagger finding led to discovery of "lost" battlefield. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An amateur archaeologist in ...

In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...