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How Rome turned soldiers into military commanders

What It Was Like to Be Every Roman Army Rank explores the strict military hierarchy behind one of history’s most formidable fighting forces. At the lower levels, recruits and legionaries endured ...

A bronze cup made near Hadrian’s Wall was found in Spain nearly 1,900 years later; researchers think a Roman soldier may have carried it home as a souvenir

A bronze cup found in a field in central Spain may have been a Roman soldier’s keepsake from Britain about 1,900 years ago.
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Roman Soldiers Had a Clever Fix for Broken Armor, Study Finds

For more than 600 years, the chainmail worn by Roman soldiers was essential gear across the entire empire, no matter where a soldier was stationed. The further the frontier stretched from supply ...
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Why Roman soldiers bent their swords before battle

Roman soldiers deliberately heated and curved the tips of their gladius swords to gain a tactical advantage in close-quarter ...
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Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield dropped by a Roman soldier who likely died in battle

What it tells us about the past: This tall, semi-cylindrical shield, which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most ...
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This Souvenir Bowl May Have Commemorated an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Service at Hadrian’s Wall. It Was Discovered on a Spanish Farm 1,900 Years Later

A virtual reconstruction of the Berlanga Cup 3D Stoa—Archaeology and Heritage / Cambridge University Press under CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists may have identified the origins of a recently discovered 1,900 ...
Ars Technica

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Did Roman soldiers get paid in salt? Theories on the etymology of 'salary'

A famous story about the etymology of salaryThe English word "salary," which means wages. Have you ever heard this story ...
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Mass grave of Roman soldiers tells gruesome tale of military disaster

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mass grave in Vienna, Austria, is believed to contain the remains of more than 150 individuals. - Urban Archeology Vienna The ...
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Mass grave of over 120 Roman soldiers found under soccer field

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A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Soldier’s Shoe Just Turned Up in Germany

Imagine walking on a bed of 60 nails. That’s how Romans soldiers did it, a recent find in Haltern am See, Germany confirmed. Archaeologists unearthed one long-lost soldier’s 2,000-year old caliga shoe ...
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Roman soldiers defending Hadrian's Wall were infected by parasites, study finds

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and ...