"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

But twenty years later war and diplomacy had only confirmed their isolation from the Empire: Roman Britannia was mutating into Anglo ... a civil rights leader and a chevalier of the Legion d’honneur.

Located two miles from the Roman legionary fortress of Carnuntum along the Danube River and long known in Austria as “Odes Schloss” (which translates to the ‘Desolate Castle’), the ...

Picture: Supplied York, in northern England, was founded as a Roman legionary outpost in 71AD and later served as the provincial capital from the early third century, with occasional visits from ...

The Roman expansion of the town of Vindobona, which later became Vienna, “from a small military site to a full-scale legionary fortress occurred in that context,” said Adler-Wölfl.

This is a man who died 1,800 years ago in the territory now occupied by York, where it is believed there was an amphitheater. He was found in 2010 with 81 other bodies in a cemetery from the Roman era ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...