What it is: A wooden and leather shield used by a Roman soldier in battle Where it is from: Dura-Europos, Syria When it was made: Second century A.D. Related: Babylonian tablet preserves student's ...

It was, quite simply, an act of war. Huddled against the biting cold, many of the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the army of the Roman Republic had served under Caesar for much of the previous decade.

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front ...

Trajan’s war on the Dacians ... equipment, and tactics the Roman Army used. And because Trajan left Dacia in ruins, the column and the remaining sculptures of defeated soldiers that once ...

It was a savage battle, but the experienced Roman army won the day. Some 80,000 Britons were massacred and, rather than be captured and sold into slavery, Boudicca poisoned herself. With heavy ...

Pompey was a war hero who had been badly treated by the ... Caesar used his expertise in military strategy, along with the Roman army’s training and discipline to conquer and subdue the rest ...

The Roman army gets its charm from a powerful set of ... Don’t go into every battle with these – just make sure to use them when you’re doing surprise attacks. Never, ever use these in ...

A beautiful and rare Roman brooch may have been taken as a “battle trophy” by an Iron Age ... interacted with the Roman army during the late second century AD, when the area had slipped ...

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front ...