By bringing the sheer scope of the Roman frontier into focus ... and archaeologists have assumed Rome’s walls were military fortifications, designed to fend off barbarian armies and hostile ...

Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ...

Auxiliaries guarded forts and frontiers but also fought in battles, often in the front lines where it was the most dangerous. The Roman army was huge. It was divided up into groups called ...

The discovery underscores the connection between Roman forts and surrounding ... significant along the German frontier, where "it was necessary for military units to become involved in the ...

Video: With Legion: Life in the Roman ... military objects alongside contemporary evidence of the real lives of men, women, and children – citizens and non-citizens, free or enslaved – in ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions ... postings for soldiers were those at the frontiers of the Roman Empire, where legionnaires ...

Many of local nomads living in the Black Desert became auxiliary forces of the Rome and served as guards of the Limes Arabicus, a system of forts built on the eastern and southern frontiers ... text ...

Like the other frontier provinces, Rome was far away. Supplies and reinforcements took a long time to arrive, and the province was held by just three legions and a few forts. They managed to keep ...