Conservators spent weeks reconstructing the arm guard, which is the most intact example of its kind and is one of only three known from the whole Roman Empire. The armour was previously in more ...

A “rare and special” piece of Roman armour that was recently reconstructed from dozens of fragments has gone on display in ...

A Roman soldier was a well-trained fighting machine. He could march 20 miles a day, wearing all his armour and equipment. He could swim or cross rivers in boats, build bridges and smash his way ...

The soldiers were the best trained, they had the best weapons and the best armour. The Roman army conquered a huge empire. A Roman soldier could march 20 miles a day, wearing all his armour and ...

There, limited local capacity to supply metal to Roman soldiers created a need to recycle and reuse mail armor, which likely supported a cottage industry. This is one conclusion of Czech and ...

More information: Recycling and repair on the Roman frontier: a hoard of mail armour from Bonn, Antiquity 2024. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.178 ...

The arm - seen from all angles - was found in a waterlogged Roman well A rare 2,000-year-old wooden arm has been recovered from the bottom of a Roman well. The "finely carved" limb was found by ...

Near the site of the ancient Roman legionary fortress in Bonn, Germany, archaeologists uncovered a 14-kilogram cache of chainmail, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD. The remnants of the armor were ...