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This carved slab (also known as the Bridgeness slab) commemorates building the most eastern part of the Antonine wall, which cut Scotland into two. Its grand inscription records the army's dedication of the building work to their emperor...

The God Mercury was one of the Dii Consentes (12 major deities in the Pantheon of ancient Rome; 6 gods and 6 goddesses). Mercury was the god of financial gain, commerce, messages, and travelers. Some altars are official offerings by military...

Two members of the French Foreign Legion who fought at the battle of Bir Hakeim in June 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). They are eating tinned corned beef, part of their British Army rations. (Imperial War Museums)

A building inscription from Milecastle 38 which gives evidence for the building of Hadrian's Wall in Britain that bears his name. The text also mentions Aulus Platorius Nepos, who arrived with the emperor in the province of Britannia in 122...

Inscription set up by the soldiers of Legio X Fretensis to coincide with the official visit of Hadrian to Aelia Capitolina in 130 CE. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. ”To the Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, son of the deified Traianus...

Inscription set up by the soldiers of Legio X Fretensis to coincide with the official visit of Hadrian to Aelia Capitolina in 130 CE. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. "To the Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, son of the deified Traianus...

Citizenship is and always has been a valued possession of any individual. When one studies the majority of ancient empires one finds that the concept of citizenship, in any form, was non-existent. The people in these societies did not and...

The ancient city of Aquileia was situated near the head of the Adriatic Sea west of the Roman province of Illyria. The strategic location of the city served a crucial role in the expansion of the Roman Republic by serving as a buffer against...

Marcus Porcius Cato (95-46 BCE), better known as Cato the Younger or Cato of Utica, was an influential politician of the Roman Republic. As the great-grandson of Cato the Elder and a dedicated student of Stoicism, he believed in traditional...

The Roman-Parthian War of 58-63 CE was sparked off when the Parthian Empire's ruler imposed his own brother as the new king of Armenia, considered by Rome to be a quasi-neutral buffer state between the two empires. When Parthia went a step...