A Roman soldier stationed at Hadrian’s Wall had feet so big that he would have had trouble finding shoes that fit in today’s ...

The British Museum’s show is themed around another legionary in search of footwear. Terentianus was a 2nd-century Egyptian lad with military ambitions but no social connections. Consequently ...

Rome’s first emperor, Augustus (63BC-AD14), inaugurated the career soldier (a role hitherto fulfilled part-time ... for 200 denarii (two-thirds of a legionary’s annual salary) makes clear. There is no ...

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

Historian Tristan Hughes investigates what it was really like to fight as a legionary soldier in the Ancient Roman army. He examines replica weapons, including Germanic and Roman swords ...

The legionaries were the elite (very best) soldiers. A legionary had to be over 17 years old and a Roman citizen. Every new recruit had to be fighting fit - anyone who was weak or too short was ...

Along the way, visitors can view the armor and weapons soldiers wielded in battle, from a gilded bronze scabbard to a copper alloy helmet to the world’s only intact legionary shield. Domestic ...

Elliott builds his account around a fictional Romano-Briton named “Gaius”, to provide the soldier’s eye view ... pulled the last of its troops out of Britain. So The Last Legionary naturally mixes ...

In extreme circumstances, soldiers were required to conserve and ... was found in a shallow pit in 2012 outside of Bonna, a Roman legionary fortress in what is today Bonn, Germany.