Rome’s infamous Gladiators have captured the public imagination for millennia because of their brutal fights in the arenas of ...
The two toy swords are like those available in the Vindolanda gift shop Two Roman swords and a pair of 2,000-year-old wooden toys like those available in a museum gift shop have been discovered at ...
It turned out to be a remarkable find; a Roman sword; a spatha dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD and rare in Britain. It is one of only eight in the country, most of these were recovered from Roman ...
In a cave in the Judean Desert, archaeologists have made a rare discovery: four 1,900-year-old Roman swords, which experts believe were taken as booty by Judean rebels during the Bar Kokhba revolt.