it can be equated with the flags of early modern Western regiments. However, very little is known about their function or meaning, as only one Roman vexillum has survived to this day. Detail of the ...

Here’s how it works. A hoard of 175 silver coins unearthed in a forest in Italy may have been buried for safe keeping during a Roman civil war. The coins seem to date from 82 B.C., the year the ...