The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ancient conflict?
In the autumn of 105 BC, the Battle of Arausio unfolded between mighty Roman legions, led by Quintus Servilius Caepio and ...
In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, thunder and lightning strikes were the prime weapon of Zeus (the king of the gods, known to the Romans as Jupiter). Reminders of his power and wrath via ...
Mysterious damage patterns on a 2,000-year-old fortress are rewriting what we know about Roman firepower. If the ancient ...
In AD 9, a young Roman hostage from the Germanic Cherusci tribe was leading an auxiliary military group deep into the Teutoburg Forest. With him were the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth ...
The Roman military camp survived for over 2,000 years, and no one even knew that it existed all this time. Archaeologists studying Roman history in Switzerland were surprised that they had fortified a ...
Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to Atlantis.
The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.
Before the Ides of March made him a martyr, Julius Caesar pulled off one of history's greatest military feats—outnumbered, ...
Freeborn County’s oldest veteran celebrated his 104th birthday Thursday morning at a party at the Albert Lea American Legion Post 56.