About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental Europe: the Lower German Limes, which stretched across the Rhine River in ...

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

Scholars with the "Constructing the Limes" project led the research on the newly discovered site. Julian de Haas / Utrecht University About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a ...