There’s also a mysterious death, with the skeletal remains of a former soldier found face down amidst ... the individual may have had a military role, as the pugio was the standard dagger used by ...

Solar-plant crews in Almendralejo uncover a 140,000-sq-ft hilltop fortress dated to 2450 BC and a Roman soldier’s grave—discover the dig’s biggest revelations.

“The deliberate placement of the pugio in the burial is a way of signaling the social position of the buried and his belonging to the army,” said César M. Pérez, director of the excavations ...

Historians believe that this could be the grave of one of the Roman soldiers, because the dagger, called ‘pugio,’ is a standard weapon of the legionnaires of that period.

Previous research has suggested that the average Roman male would have worn something closer to an 8.5, so this shoe belonged to one extraordinarily large soldier.

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

Archaeologists in Germany excavated part of an ancient Roman military camp and found typical artifacts and a very rare pot, officials said. Photo from EggensteinEsca GmbH / M. Zur-Schaepers via LWL ...

The Roman with GIANT feet: Scientists discover a 2,000-year-old leather shoe belonging to a soldier with size 13 feet Alnwick Teviothead Byrness ...