Archaeologists discovered the first Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, dating to early 200s A.D. The site held over 1,500 artifacts that have been recovered.

Those findings paved the way for a series of large, on-the-ground surveys conducted between 2024 and 2025. A team of archaeologists walked over the camps, metal detectors in hand, in search of ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

Imagine walking on a bed of 60 nails. That’s how Romans soldiers did it, a recent find in Haltern am See, Germany confirmed. Archaeologists unearthed one long-lost soldier’s 2,000-year old caliga shoe ...

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs. Reading time 2 minutes What would you do if, while ...

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university students ...

Nearly two millennia ago at an ancient port on the Red Sea, elite Roman officers seem to have kept some unusual primate pets—and loved them dearly. In a Roman animal cemetery at the port of Berenike, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A funerary stele discovered in Spain shows Roman auxiliary cavalry unit movements from the first century C.E. Tied to the Julio-Claudian period, the ...

The Roman army was spread across the entire globe, fighting huge campaigns that would require an enormous amount of supplies.