At 126 feet tall, cut from marble, adorned with a spiral frieze intricately carved with 155 scenes, Trajan’s amazing column is a war diary that soars over Rome. Its tale: how the emperor ...

In a Romanian forest near the hill of Măgura Călanului, an unexpected discovery has revealed a unique set of iron tools that belonged to and were used by a Dacian stonemason more than 2,000 years ago, ...

Reading an Ancient Comic Strip. The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Near a sleepy village in southern Romania, a festival featuring historic re-enactments evokes a time when the region was part of the easternmost Dacian provinces of the Roman Empire.

For example, in one of the most complete iconographic monuments to Roman militarism and imperialism, Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now ...

For example, in one of the most complete iconographic monuments to Roman militarism and imperialism, Trajan’s Column (built in Rome in AD 113 with the spoils from the Dacian wars in what is now ...

Museum conservators have finally pieced together the “ancient jigsaw puzzle,” reconstructing what is now a full piece of “exceptionally rare” Roman armor known as an arm guard, officials said.

Roman Army Gallery. By Dr Jon Coulston ... Two monuments bearing sculptures depicting aspects of Trajan's Dacian Wars across the Danube (101 - 102 AD and 105- 106 AD) survive: Trajan's Column in ...

An exceptionally preserved 30-pound Roman chainmail, found in 2012 in Bonn, Germany, ... 2,500-year-old chainmail linked to Roman military reveals clever armor repair tactic.