If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...

St George's Day, celebrated on April 23, honors England's patron saint, a Roman soldier from modern-day Turkey. Known for slaying a dragon, his legend symbolizes courage, faith, and the triumph of ...

The Cherubini twin brothers will be reunited again after more than 80 years away from each other. The remains of U.S. Army Pvt. Roman Cherubini, who was killed in a military offensive in Burma on June ...

In fact, it was the site of a sprawling Roman horse cemetery in the second century C.E. Positioned near an ancient Roman cavalry fort, the cemetery was largely a disposal ground for horses who’d died ...

Ancient Roman gladiators were often pitted against animals in the arena—animals capable of killing a human being. Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have ...

Left: From the research paper: Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain ... rather than soldiers or slaves,” Malin Holst, a co-author of the study ...

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 ...

It seemed as though their actions might have affected him, but the Jews were soon surrounded by Roman soldiers and Pilate threatened to “cut them down” if they continued to protest the images ...

An ancient mass grave of Roman war horses has been found in Stuttgart—but one burial, complete with grave goods, suggests a soldier’s love ran far deeper than duty. In a groundbreaking discovery in ...