Old Military Equipment Finding a helmet is not uncommon, like discovering a Roman soldier's grave from the year 'zero' in the Netherlands, but this didn't seem like it was some Roman legionnaire's ...

This was no ordinary foot-soldier headgear. As conservators painstakingly peeled off the many layers of rust and soil, they ...

Roman helmets are considered exceptionally rare ... quality of the military equipment suggest ownership by the highest warrior elite of the ancient society. Notably, there are differences between ...

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

An auxiliary was a soldier who was not a Roman citizen. He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage. Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front ...