A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously ...

The skeletal finds suggest “a hasty covering of the dead with earth,” as the individuals were not buried in an orderly fashion ... Roman battlefields in Europe, but none from the 1st/2nd ...

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

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria have discovered the remains of around 150 Roman soldiers in a mass grave dating back to the 1st century AD. The soldiers, aged 20-30, appeared to have been killed ...

Until now. Bite marks found on the hip bone of a gladiator, known as 6DT19, who fought and died in Roman Britain in the 3rd century C.E. have been put forward as the first such proof.

Statue of a Resting Goat. Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period. Head attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation ...

A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...