One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.

Tradition holds that the soldier who pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion came to believe in him and is honored today as ...

This diploma would have granted the soldier Roman citizenship, the site director said Unearthing personal items from Roman times feels like having a "real connection to the person that owned these ...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major ...

Urban Roman sites - such as London and York - had a more diverse parasite range, including fish and meat tapeworms. Dr. Patrik Flammer, who analyzed samples from Vindolanda at the University of Oxford ...

Despite their reputation for advanced sanitation, ancient Romans at a major fort in northern England were probably suffering from a range of digestive ailments caused by parasites. The fort of ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and ...

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first believed to be a cellar, but was determined to be a tomb after the discovery of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A seven-skeleton mass grave tucked inside a well in Croatia offered scholars a chance to analyze the puzzling set remains. A team discovered that all ...