Experts have now x-rayed the swords and found decorative markings on one of them. Caroline Morris from the Corinium Museum said: "These are some real crackers for the Roman Cotswold area and are ...
It turned out to be a remarkable find; a Roman sword; a spatha dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD and rare in Britain. It is one of only eight in the country, most of these were recovered from Roman ...
In a cave in the Judean Desert, archaeologists have made a rare discovery: four 1,900-year-old Roman swords, which experts believe were taken as booty by Judean rebels during the Bar Kokhba revolt.
The two toy swords are like those available in the Vindolanda gift shop Two Roman swords and a pair of 2,000-year-old wooden toys like those available in a museum gift shop have been discovered at ...
Israeli researchers made a rare find during a survey of a Dead Sea cave: Four perfectly preserved Roman swords thought to have been used in battle 1,900 years ago. The swords were likely "booty ...
The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around 264BCE, 2300 years ago, back when Rome was still a republic and didn’t have an ...