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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Seven skeletons found over a decade ago stashed inside a Croatian well didn’t immediately provide any clues toward the site’s ...

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 in Croatia have unearthed a chilling discovery that could potentially rewrite aspects of Roman military ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ancient Roman villa in northern France also had a burial from relatively recent history. D. Delaporte French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Decades after an ancient site ...