Forward The purpose of this paper is to provide general readers, and those wishing to don a more accurate Roman 'toga', all the...

The sole mention of the arcuballista occurs in the work of Vegetius (Epitoma rei militaris) [1]. In book II.15, when describing how the...

A major source of information for Roman artillery is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BC Roman author, architect, civil and...

Many years ago, long before I joined The Roman Military Research Society (or RMRS), a teacher inspired his pupils to build a catapulta,...

Gladiators were the sporting heroes of the ancient world. The archaeological record shows them celebrated in everything from mosaics to...

Every so often, over the last decade at least, our modern-day bards, the media, regurgitate a story about 'European-looking' people in...

An interesting and somewhat challenging day. After a 5 am start, we drove North through squally showers to spend the day at Birdoswald...

The Latin term 'craticula' is a diminutive form of 'crates' used to mean a gridiron (Martial, 14.221) [1], the bars of which give it the...

All Romans ate dormice didn't they? You may have been told that in school, and it's still a popular and persistent belief, but it's...

One of the tasty recipes drawn from Apicius is for 'soft eggs in a pine kernel sauce' (Apicius 7.13.3). Should you wish to reproduce this...

In April 2005 David Sapsted, writing for The Telegraph newspaper, reported that: 'Years of division among academics over whether the...