It was a cold and wet September day, 9 AD. Mist and drizzle covered three Roman legions and their followers traversing ...

Ancient Greek and Roman armies were large and fearsome for their time, but their warfare tactics and leadership during battle ...

New discoveries at the archaeological site of Kalkriese in Germany point to where many Roman legionaries were massacred. Sarah Bond and ancient historian Adrian Murdoch explore the discovery. There is ...

In 9 AD, Rome suffered one of her most devastating military defeats – an ambush in North-Western Germany that wiped out three legions on the march, in what they believed to be pacified territory.

A bloody assault by Roman legions on a hill fort in Scotland around 1,800 years ago is being pieced together using the remains of Roman missile weapons that were used in the attack. The excavations at ...

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman Republic’s stability. With Rome in turmoil, Lucius Sergius Catilina, a disgraced ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

A suave bronze head of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, dominates the start of this new exhibition at the British Museum. Take a moment to savour its glaring inlaid eyes, if imperial-grade art is your ...

Italian re-enactors turned back the clock almost 2,000 years by setting up their Roman camp on Hadrian’s Wall. The Legio 1 Italica group arrived at Birdoswald Roman fort at Gilsland on the ...

Here’s What to Remember: For millennia, soldiers on battlefields the world over have spilled each other’s blood in the name of God, tribe, clan, king, and country. They have fought the enemy du jour, ...