Before they could lay the smackdown in the arena, gladiators were professionally trained, combining a physical regimen with an education in the rules of the ring. Gladiator reenactors pose amid ...

As the Roman Empire grew, so did the importance of its army - the Roman Legion. But what was life on the march like? What happened on the encampments after dark? And why couldn't eunuchs join the ...

Someone has won the R124 million Powerball, was it you? Woman with 50 cars - including £1.2million Toyota - and a motor made of wood Woman who died for 8 minutes says ‘death is an illusion’ 4 South ...

What may have been a Roman soldier's monthly paycheck has emerged from under the ground, officials announced this month. British officials recently unveiled the discovery of a 1,900-year-old Roman ...

Cowan, Ross. Imperial Roman Legionary AD 161–284 (United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2003). Cowan, Ross. Roman Legionary 109–58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great (United Kingdom: ...

A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's monthly wage in the 2nd Century has been uncovered by a metal detectorist. The discovery of 25 coins was made in a field near Great ...

Most of the coins found featured emperors, but some were minted in the names of imperial wives, including Hadrian's wife Sabina (above) A Roman silver coin hoard worth almost the same as a legionary's ...

A shallow pit in Area B, containing exclusively mandibles, maxillae and isolated pig teeth; based on a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) calculation, the assemblage represents at least 13 pigs.

The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 dig at the Driffield Terrace cemetery in York, one of the only known Roman-era burial grounds thought to have been used for gladiatorial combatants. A ...

Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a strategic trade crossing for the Danube River as part of the historic Amber Road ...