An exceptionally preserved 30-pound Roman chainmail, found in 2012 in Bonn, Germany, reveals how ancient soldiers repaired and recycled their armor when they had to take matters into their own ...

Roman Soldiers Had a Clever Fix for Broken Armor, Study Finds The research is based on a 30-pound chainmail hoard found in Bonn, Germany. The Roman sculpture of Menelaus. Photo: Shutterstock.

The life of a Roman soldier was full of risk, danger and camraderie, but it could also be beset with loneliness. Many soldiers joined in order to build a better future for themselves.

Archaeologists pieced together an “ancient jigsaw puzzle” of more than 100 artifacts and reconstructed a Roman piece of armor in Scotland, according to the National Museums of Scotland. Photo ...

Museum conservators have finally pieced together the “ancient jigsaw puzzle,” reconstructing what is now a full piece of “exceptionally rare” Roman armor known as an arm guard, officials said.

Archaeologists have found four Roman swords and a shafted weapon known as a pilum dating from 1,900 years ago in a cave near the shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. The rare cache of weapons was ...

Researchers said the weapons might have been hidden in the cave by Jewish rebels, who seized them from the Roman army as booty. "This is a dramatic and exciting discovery, touching on a specific ...

Experts from the Israel Antiquity Authority were amazed by the nearly 2,000-year-old weapons found, which they said could have been stolen from Roman soldiers by Jewish rebels and then hidden.

Israeli archeologists show four Roman-era swords and a javelin head found during a recent excavation in a cave near the Dead Sea, in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, Sept. 6. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg) ...