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A tourist asked to be whipped by a local wearing a Roman soldier costume as part of an Easter tradition in the Philippines. The holidaymaker visited Marinduque province to witness the annual Holy Week ...
These elaborate costumes, imitations of Roman soldiers ... Credit: AP/Eduardo Verdugo The hats of the sayones, meant to ...
A British Army soldier stole almost £150,000 worth of equipment, including a military kit “attractive to terrorists”, and sold it on eBay. Cpl Tarj Sevier, 32, stole Ministry of Defence (MoD ...
Could you survive as a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall? Join the History Hit YouTube team as we discover what life was like for Roman legionaries and auxiliary troops on the northern frontier of ...
Sometime during the first century C.E., a fierce battle took place in what is now Vienna, Austria—likely between Roman soldiers and ... unearth the remains of a helmet cheek protector, a ...
"As cremation burials were common in the European parts of the Roman Empire around 100 AD, body burials were an absolute exception, " she explained. "Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are ...
a mass grave dating back to the first century CE and Roman empire. The gravesite contained the skeletons of potentially over 150 soldiers. According to archeologists, the discovery is as dark as ...
The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers ... from a Roman helmet was found ...
The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of more than a hundred soldiers who died in combat ... A cheek piece from a ...