our swords are also bigger than average. “Our customers are obviously American men and women,” Lienhart explained. “A traditional Roman gladius [...] was made for the Roman legion.

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 ...

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 ...

Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius ... all the weapons they carried. The toughest postings for soldiers were those at the frontiers of the Roman Empire, where ...