Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to ...

Tristan Hughes explores what we do know about the Ninth Legion, tracking its history across Britain. In this documentary, ...

Boudicca, who’s name means “Bringer of Victory,” was an ancient British Celtic queen who died around 60 CE, after leading her ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

In 1954, the children’s novel ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ popularised the legend of the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Recent research has shown the Ninth was not ...

It was, quite simply, an act of war. Huddled against the biting cold, many of the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the army of the Roman Republic had served under Caesar for much of the previous decade.