Seven Roman soldier were found in a water well in Croatia. The findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE. The research describes evidence from a mass grave in ancient Mursa—today’s Osijek, in ...

Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda, located near Hadrian's Wall in northern England, were riddled with ...

Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River in a furious battle. Almost two thousand years later, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists recently made a colossal discovery: an ancient Roman mass grave, dating back to the first century A.D., underneath a soccer field in Vienna. The necropolis was found by construction ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia — the first time Giardia has been identified in ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

Roman soldiers living along Britain’s northern frontier used communal bath and toilet facilities that depended on a sewer ...

Whipworm egg from the analysis of sediment from the sewer drain leading from the latrine block at the 3rd century CE bath complex at Vindolanda. (Marissa Ledger via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Roman ...