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One of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. As 5,000 of Rome’s finest […] ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mass grave beneath a soccer field in Vienna, revealing the remains ofabout 150 Roman ...
Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...
The legionaries were the elite (very best) soldiers. A legionary had to be over 17 years old and a Roman citizen. Every new recruit had to be fighting fit - anyone who was weak or too short was ...
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...
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Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 1781553343. The Roman Army in Transition English military historian and reenactor Elliott, author of The Last Legionary: Life as a Roman ...
The legionaries were the elite (very best) soldiers. A legionary had to be over 17 years old and a Roman citizen. Every new recruit had to be fighting fit - anyone who was weak or too short was ...
The Roman expansion of the town of Vindobona, which later became Vienna, “from a small military site to a full-scale legionary fortress ... on the lives of the soldiers and their living conditions.