Those findings paved the way for a series of large, on-the-ground surveys conducted between 2024 and 2025. A team of archaeologists walked over the camps, metal detectors in hand, in search of ...

Imagine walking on a bed of 60 nails. That’s how Romans soldiers did it, a recent find in Haltern am See, Germany confirmed. Archaeologists unearthed one long-lost soldier’s 2,000-year old caliga shoe ...

Nearly two millennia ago at an ancient port on the Red Sea, elite Roman officers seem to have kept some unusual primate pets—and loved them dearly. In a Roman animal cemetery at the port of Berenike, ...

In 447 AD, Attila and his Huns crossed the Danube in force, tearing through the Balkans and confronting the Eastern Roman ...

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs. Reading time 2 minutes What would you do if, while ...

Volunteer archaeologists scanning commercial satellite imagery have helped uncover four Roman marching camps in central Germany, revealing traces of a 1,700‑year‑old military campaign that had gone ...

Entrance to the marching camp of Trabitz with the characteristic titulum in an aerial photograph. Credit: GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeo ST, Datenlizenz Deutschland Historical sources document several ...

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university students ...

It’s one of three known examples of such a garment in the world. A remarkably rare Roman military hat, dating back 2,000 years, has finally been put on display after spending more than 100 years in ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...