Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and ...

"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

The Roman army was very well organised. It consisted of several distinct units. Each legion was spit into smaller parts of 480 men called a cohort. These centuries were then further split up into ...

Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 1781553343. The Roman Army in Transition English military historian and reenactor Elliott, author of The Last Legionary: Life as a Roman ...

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“You’re holding a nail from a Roman soldier’s sandal,” she ... in A.D. 9, three crack legions of Rome’s army were caught in an ambush and annihilated. Ongoing finds—ranging from ...

The Roman expansion of the town of Vindobona, which later became Vienna, “from a small military site to a full-scale legionary fortress ... on the lives of the soldiers and their living conditions.