In 9 AD, Rome suffered one of her most devastating military defeats – an ambush in North-Western Germany that wiped out three legions on the march, in what they believed to be pacified territory.

Roman soldier's boot (Latin: caliga) with nailed sole. In the background, the corner tower of the Waldmössingen fort, rebuilt in 1975. Credit: Universität Freiburg, L. Regetz An archaeological ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting force in world history up to the end of the empire in the 5th century AD.

An intern working for the Westphalie Department for the Preservation and Care of Field Monuments in Germany shocked his employers when he uncovered a rare Roman dagger at an archaeological site.

Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of a Roman fortress in Germany that once protected against barbarian intruders. For more than a century, historians have suspected that a defense structure ...

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