The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in the first ...

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What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remains of a 1,800-year-old Roman military base that once housed thousands of soldiers. The base is located at the foot of Tel Megiddo—the site of an ancient city in ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

Excavations in a southern Italy town revealed ancient fortified walls that fell to a Roman siege. CNR ISPC (Archaeological Mapping Laboratory) Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the ...

The disocvery is the first of its kind in the region. In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, Ancient Origins ...

Archaeologists unearthed more than 100 equine skeletons near the site of a Roman military base. State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council / ArchaeoBW Roughly 1,800 years ...