Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing ...
In 542 AD, during the Gothic War—a conflict sparked by Emperor Justinian’s ambition to restore Roman rule in the West—Eastern ...
In 447 AD, Attila and his Huns crossed the Danube in force, tearing through the Balkans and confronting the Eastern Roman ...
A catacomb filled with niches for burying the dead was discovered in 1919 beneath Villa Torlonia, a lavish estate on the outskirts of Rome. Unlike other catacombs in the city, this one was used by ...
The income of Roman soldiers is a topic that many avoid. After all, studying the accounting and calculating the income of a Roman soldier does not arouse the same interest as the legionaries ...
Archaeologists uncovered the 2,000-year-old Flaccus tomb at Heerlen’s Raadhuisplein during a town-square excavation, along with pottery that still bore the inscriptio “FLAC.” City planners and ...