In 1954, the children’s novel ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ popularised the legend of the disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion in Caledonia. Recent research has shown the Ninth was not ...

Using clues from aerial photography and chance finds in fields, archaeologist and Roman expert Simon Elliott thinks he has identified a major engagement involving the Ninth Legion in Derbyshire.

The Roman system of controlling of the tribes north of Hadrian's Wall broke down. Scouting was abandoned and forts like ...

One arrives to the exhibition Legion: life in the Roman Army, which opened this month ... Robe and Marcus Flavius Aquila of The Eagle of the Ninth. Messala was surely the better athlete.