R oughly 1,800 years ago, a Roman cavalry horse died of unknown causes. The animal’s human rider, a Roman soldier, buried the creature in a shallow grave. As a parting gift, the soldier tucked a ...

Researchers believe the cavalry unit consisted of more than ... with his steed and grieved over the creature's death. The Roman soldiers must have marked the location of each grave because there ...

The site was a known military stronghold for the Roman army. A well-defined horse cemetery ... horses that were part of the Roman Empire’s cavalry in the second century A.D. Construction crews ...

A lone red sock sits among the stop-you-in-your-tracks bronze cavalry helmets, crocodile-skin armour and other remarkable pieces that litter the halls of Legion: Life in the Roman Army at the ...

The swords have long blades that were likely used by Roman soldiers or civilians while riding ... has unearthed a pair of 1,800-year-old Roman cavalry swords, still encased in the remnants ...

two army units were based at the fort: the First Tungrians, consisting of infantry, and the Ninth Batavians, a mix of infantry and cavalry. They were Roman in the sense that they belonged to the ...

"It was placed during or in the aftermath of the period of invasion of the island by the Roman army" in A.D. 60 or 61. Considering the items were located near a spring, whoever buried them ...

AMMAN — The Roman Empire in the Middle East recruited so-called “dromedarii”, who were camel-riding soldiers in the desert provinces of the empire to replace classical cavalry. In this harsh arid ...

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...