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While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...
Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.
Centurion, which stars Michael Fassbender, is a brutal survival thriller that plunges a band of Roman soldiers into ...
Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Caesarea, in present-day Israel, have found a Roman-era marble sarcophagus depicting an extraordinary scene: a drinking contest between Dionysus, the god ...
He has predicted Tesla would go from building at least 5,000 this year—equivalent in size to a Roman legion as he put it—before increasing that 200-fold as early as 2029.
The Roman road runs from the south coast to the north and is one of the most well-preserved in the country — you can still walk it ...
Both these individuals exhibit bladed weapon injuries, whilst one has a spear head lodged in his spine, previously interpreted (wrongly) as a Roman ballista bolt. Credit: Martin Smith. A new study ...
Students from the Constructing the Limes project, together with archaeologists from Saxion University, discovered a Roman military camp in Veluwe, the largest forest in the Netherlands, near the town ...
His short-lived Germanic federation took down three Roman legions in the autumn of AD9, probably around the time of Jesus’ Barmitzvah (given that Jesus Christ appears to have been born in, er, 4BC).
A new study in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has made the shocking discovery that one of the most famous moments in British history never actually happened.. The epic and brutal fight between a ...