School-age gamers, get ready: the 2025 Battle of the Boroughs Minecraft Build Challenge, an e-sports competition for students in grades K to 12, has officially kicked off.Hosted by the Department ...

and probably belonged to a Roman soldier who lost his life in battle. Few examples of this type of shield have survived over the millennia, even though it is well known from depictions in art.

Name: Painted Roman scutum (long shield) What it is: A wooden and leather shield used by a Roman soldier in battle Where it is from: Dura-Europos, Syria When it was made: Second century A.D. Related: ...

The 2,000-year-old tomb of a Roman soldier—including evidence of his name—has been discovered in the city of Heerlen, ...

Small, spoon-shaped objects found on the end of warriors' belts at archaeological sites across northern Europe could have been used to dispense stimulants before battle, a study suggests.

Archeologists have recovered over 200 small, spoonlike objects next to warfare-related artifacts at Roman era dig sites ... consume stimulants in the heat of battle,” the authors write in ...

This region falls within a vast area of central and northern Europe often referred to as Barbaricum by the Roman empire ... stimulants in the heat of battle,” the authors write in their paper.

And the Romans didn’t sculpt bone-white statues; they painted them using an array of colors. But I’m most interested in how the two films misrepresent the way Roman gladiators and their bodies ...