Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius ... At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mass grave beneath a soccer field in Vienna, revealing the remains ofabout 150 Roman ...

Roman soldiers spent a long time training and practicing ... the soldiers on the outside stabbed at them with their swords. The Romans also had soldiers who were expert archers.

The gravesite contained the skeletons of potentially over 150 soldiers ... year old Roman legionnaires, all of whom appear to display evidence of fatal battle injuries from spears, swords ...

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

The soldiers, aged 20-30, appeared to have been killed in battle, with injuries from swords, spears, and projectiles identified as the cause of death. People work on the excavation of a Roman mass ...