The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Included amongst the finds were slingshots embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army which is known to have fought upon the battlefield below.