Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

Cherubini’s remains were identified in December by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was 22 years old at the time of ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

The Limbourg brothers, Herman, Paul, and Jean, born between 1385 and 1388, were Dutch painters from Nijmegen, but they were ...

Roman Reigns started his journey in WWE as the silent muscle of The Shield and worked his way to becoming the OTC. Roman Reigns didn't like what happened to him after The Shield broke up but he had to ...

a type of footwear used by Roman soldiers. The museum wrote that the dagger was instrumental in the dating because its style was in use from the middle of the first century A.D. to the beginning ...

Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of ...

The 129 bodies, which were likely a mix of Roman soldiers and Germanic tribesmen, were found in total. Dislocated bones were also found at the site, meaning that as many as 150 victims' remains ...

Archaeologists Discover a Mass Grave of 150 Roman Legionaries ... the teeth of the fallen soldiers were in remarkably good condition. While this suggests a relatively healthy population, it ultimately ...