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Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...
General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...
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The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...
Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...
Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era fort in northern England have unearthed several enormous ancient leather soles that ...
Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...
Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...
In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...
By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.