Archaeologists in Austria recently unearthed a trio of Roman era mosaics, which shed light onto life in ancient times. The ...

Advantageously located on the Rhine River, and along the west-east route from Gaul to the Danube River and the Raetia province, the population of Augusta Raurica soon swelled to 15,000 inhabitants.

Initially, the fort housed troops from the Cohors II Raetorum Civium Romanorum, a cohort recruited in Raetia, a Roman province extending from Lake Constance to the Inn River, with its capital at ...

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I've decided to start playing in 2022, starting with the Late Roman period in Britain. After this I plan to build armies for Age of Hannibal. This project will be a mix of research, hobby painting and ...

Enlist in the legions, they say; you’ll see the world, they say. Perhaps it is not unusual to pass between the columns of the British Museum repeating the Asterix the Legionary phrase while walking at ...

Contemporary writers called the local inhabitants Raetians, a reference to their tribal goddess Raetia, Reita, or Reeta. A central shrine to this goddess was at Este in the Po River valley in northern ...

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"In 401, [Roman general] Stilicho, himself of Vandal origins, managed to stop the Vandals' plundering migration through the province of Raetia and engaged them as federates [allies] to settle in ...

The camp grew into the town of Augusta Vindelicorum, which later became the capital of the Roman province of Raetia. As Sebastian Gairhos, head of Augsburg’s archaeology department, says in a ...