AMMAN — The military tactics of the ancient world included mounted archers and Parthian and Armenian ... The destruction of Parthia would have removed the most formidable enemy and would have given ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... before charging into the enemy. Then the cavalry (soldiers riding horses) chased anyone who tried to run away.

Following painstaking conservation and reassembly of broken parts it is now the centrepiece of the Roman gallery in Lancaster City Museum, part of Lancashire County Museum Service.

Since cavalry at that time still did not play as significant a role as it would in the Middle Ages, and due to the difficulties of obtaining enough horses to meet the needs, the bulk of Roman cavalry ...

Historians grimace at the word “inevitable,” but in the same way that the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 laid the groundwork ...

with a smaller supporting contingent of cavalry. At this early stage, there was no distinctive 'Roman' sword. Instead, ...

A Helmet to Face the HunsThis fourth-century Roman helmet, known as a Berkasovo, is made of iron and silver and was found in Serbia. Helmets like these, worn by the cavalry, were used at the time ...

As its name suggests, the equestrian class was originally composed of the Roman cavalry. In 218 BC, equestrians took on more commercial roles when Lex Claudia prevented Senators from becoming ...

The Roman Forum was a hub for ever day ancient Roman life. It was here that Cicero delivered a famous speech denouncing Catiline in 63 B.C. Fresh off the success of Apocalypse Now, Coppola became ...

Progress in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in Ancient Rome was slow and patchy; doctors tended to develop their own theories and diverged in several different directions. Many Roman doctors ...

25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found ... microorganisms within the hot waters of the Roman Baths, regularly listed among the UK's ...