Roman soldiers living along Britain’s northern frontier used communal bath and toilet facilities that depended on a sewer ...

Virtually every spring, they would launch a new military campaign, so each surviving soldier was expected to fight in many different wars throughout their careers. But as the ancient texts analyzed by ...

Our first look at Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is here, and you'd be forgiven for thinking he's just any old ancient Greek soldier. We've known for a little while now that ...

One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

The Macedonian army of King Philip II and Alexander the Great was renowned for its success in conquering the Persian Empire.

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

An ancient Roman mystery is afoot in the rolling hills of northern Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of unusually large shoes at the ruins of a first-century military fort along Hadrian’s ...

An exceptionally preserved 30-pound Roman chainmail, found in 2012 in Bonn, Germany, reveals how ancient soldiers repaired and recycled their armor when they had to take matters into their own hands ...

Outside the ancient city of Xi’an in China stands one of the world’s most astonishing archaeological discoveries: an army ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern ...