At Isca Augusta, a major Roman fortress in Britain, soldiers underwent rigorous training to prepare for battle. From drills and discipline to weapons practice, this site offers insight into how the ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected ...

When most people imagine Roman soldiers, they picture the famous legionaries wearing segmented armor and red cloaks. But over time, Roman soldiers began to look very different. By the late Roman ...

The Avars rose as a dominant ethnic group in Europe, where their conflicts with the Byzantine Empire reshaped the landscape of the Balkans.

“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas ...

New dating shows a Roman villa mosaic was laid in the 5th century, reshaping post-Roman Britain. Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the ...

Archaeologists in Bearsden discovered the ruins of a 1,900-year-old fortlet alongside the Roman Empire's famous Antonine Wall ...