The Roman Empire was created ... The minimum term of service for a soldier during the first century AD was twenty years. Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius.

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

During construction work at a sports facility in Vienna, excavators unearthed dozens of intact skeletons piled atop one ...

A sword known as…the gladius ... where slaves could be captured and taken back to Rome. The Roman army was a vital part of ancient Roman life, affecting everything from the way it was governed ...

Vindobona was the ancient Roman military camp and settlement that would ... not save them from injuries sustained by daggers, spears, swords, projectiles, and other sorts of weapons, which proved ...