Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman military base that once housed thousands of soldiers. The base is located at the foot of Tel Megiddo—the site of an ancient city in ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman military encampment high atop a mountain range in the Swiss Alps located between eastern Switzerland and northern Italy, Live Science reported. A ...

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. Pp. 608. Illus., maps, diagr., tables, biblio., index. $40.00. ISBN: 1250004713 The prolific Australian novelist and scholar Dando ...

Soldiers served an average of 25 years in the imperial Roman army. How likely were they to reach retirement? Ex-FBI agent notices something odd about Nancy Guthrie ransom Italy’s famous 'Lovers’ Arch' ...

Oxford: Oxbow Books/Oakville, Ct.: David Brown Books, 2008. Pp. v, 169. Illus, maps, diagr., notes, biblio. $60.00 paper. ISBN: 978-1-84217-323-7 The Imperial Roman ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman centurion ...

Archaeologists have discovered remains of an ancient weapon that spread “terror and confusion” among the Roman army. In Southern Spain, an elephant foot bone has been found, which may be evidence that ...

You're thinking of the pre-Marian Republican Roman army. By the time they were out in Bulgaria (*), it was the "classical" Imperial Roman army of professionals. Mostly, AFAWK, recruited from the urban ...