"The deliberate placement of the pugio in the burial ... If confirmed to be a soldier, "he could only have belonged to Legio VII Gemina," the only Roman legion stationed in Hispania at the ...

The Romans occupied what's now Spain from 218 B.C. until roughly the fourth century A.D. The fortress burial included a " pugio " — the standard dagger of the Roman army — that suggests the dead man ...

Perched on a hillside in Spain, this site had been hiding a double surprise from archaeologists for centuries. In 2021, during a preventive excavation ahead of a planned solar panel installation ...

Roman Soldier Flaccus Found 2,000 Years Later In ... He was positioned face down, had his feet cut off and a sheathed dagger—known as a pugio— placed on his back. “This suggests the ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...