There, limited local capacity to supply metal to Roman soldiers created a need to recycle and reuse mail armor, which likely supported a cottage industry. This is one conclusion of Czech and ...

According to the Yale University Art Gallery ... Archaeologists found the skeletons of 19 Roman soldiers, complete with all their weapons and armor — including the scutum — in a tunnel ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity sheds new light on how Roman soldiers maintained and repaired their chainmail armor on the empire's northern frontiers. Researchers from Czechia ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled ... He also carried a 'pilum' (javelin), a helmet, armor, shield and a pack with supplies. Soldiers were rigorously trained to march long distances ...

so it is unusual to see it as a sword-arm protection for Roman soldiers, too,” he says. “Its display, posed with classic legionary segmental body armor, is stunning.” Parts of the armor have ...

some of whom were buried with distinctive armor and weapons that established that they'd been Roman soldiers. Many had injuries on their bones caused by weapons like lances, daggers and swords ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers ... of scale armor, which became ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...