BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...

Measuring less than an inch, the jet black charm was likely handcrafted in the fourth century AD, about 300 years after the Romans invaded Britain ... Soldiers stationed there guarded the Roman ...

At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile place with little to do. Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of ...

The extraordinary colonia, founded by Roman soldiers between the 2nd and 3rd centuries, yielded several remarkable ...

Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups invaded Roman Britain, with the Picts atta ...

the Roman empire set its sight on invading Britain. There was just one problem: Roman soldiers were absolutely terrified of the place Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning A Rare Look at ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the individual was likely bitten by a lion.

index. $16.95 paper. ISBN: 0752459279 Soldiering in Late Fourth Century Roman Britain Drawing upon an academic background in ancient history and archaeology, and his own experience as a reenactor, ...

Mass grave of Roman-era soldiers discovered beneath soccer field in Vienna Latest in Romans 2,000-year-old bed barricade unearthed in Pompeii house — likely a family's last attempt to escape ...

In the spring of 367 CE, Roman Britain was besieged from all sides and by all kinds of forces. Harvests shriveled. Soldiers and the security they provided vanished. Communities were starving.

Roman Britain's main produce were crops like spelt ... The study suggests that given the crucial role of grain in the contract between soldiers and the army, grain deficits may have contributed ...