A new show at the British Museum is turning the spotlight on the soldiers that helped build and safeguard Roman rule ... world’s only intact legionary shield. Domestic objects such as ...

The world's only intact Roman shield and body armour that ... are set to go on display in a new exhibition at the British Museum. The shield, which is on its maiden transatlantic loan from Yale ...

London’s British Museum's latest exhibition invites visitors ... "The scutum from Dura-Europos in Syria, is the only surviving complete Roman shield. I called it a scutum because that's a ...

Today's Object of the Week is an item of Roman armour set to dazzle visitors to the British Museum. A huge fire ... during a huge fire at Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort, in the late third ...

Life in the Roman Army at the British Museum. The show is aimed squarely at our apparently unending fascination with all things Roman but this small, uncannily well-preserved, item of knitwear ...

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 ...

A Roman long shield, or scutum ... (Soldiers had to be at least 5 feet 6 inches tall.) The British Museum has been using focus groups since the mid-2000s, said Stuart Frost, who oversees that ...

As worn by a Roman legionary, the armored sleeve would have stretched down from the wearer’s shoulder before ending in a thin square of metal intended to shield his hand—a design that was ...

Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort - a UNESCO World Heritage site - is lending the Regina tombstone to the British Museum for a forthcoming exhibition about life in the Roman Army. The British ...

From stone carvings to iron helmets, a new blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum, "Legion ... star of the show is the only surviving complete Roman scutum - the iconic rectangular and curved ...