One of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. As 5,000 of Rome's finest soldiers marched north to quell a rebellion, they suddenly realized they were ...

Fans of armies and battles from times gone by are legion on the web and in real life. While in France, many of these enthusiasts turn to the Napoleonic Wars or the Second World War, here's a group ...

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

Remains of the largest Roman military base ever found in Israel have been discovered under a northern kibbutz wheatfield at the foot of Tel Megiddo, the site of the biblical Armageddon. Over 5,000 ...

Since 2002, Dando-Collins has produced about a book a year on some aspect of Roman history, most often a “biography” of one of the legions. In this work, he attempts, with fair success, to give us a ...