The military base at Megiddo once belonged to the Legio VI Ferrata ("Sixth Ironclad Legion") of the Imperial Roman Army, which was sent to garrison the province of Judaea in the first century.

Included amongst the finds were slingshots embossed with the stamp of the Roman army’s third legion, an Imperial Roman army which is known to have fought upon the battlefield below.

More than 10 percent of the entire imperial army had been wiped out—the myth of its invincibility shattered. In the wake of the debacle, Roman bases in Germany were hastily abandoned.

The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337. A Sourcebook by B Campbell (London, 1994) Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, c. 31 BC - AD 230 by B Campbell (London, 2002) The Making of the Roman Army from ...

Illus., maps, diagr., tables, biblio., index. $40.00. ISBN: 1250004713 The prolific Australian novelist and scholar Dando-Collins gives us a concise handbook to the legions of the Imperial Roman Army.

“Legion: Life in the Roman Army” transports visitors to the million ... space covering the rise of Rome from a small town to an imperial capital, covering a period of about 1,000 years.

Someone’s husband trying on a Roman centurion costume in ... empire in the modern world is of an immutable military might, in reality the imperial system survived because it was flexible.

The slingshots contain the stamp of the third legion, a unit of the Imperial Roman army that was known to have fought at the battlefield below, showing a likely link between it and the military ...

Credit: Arkikon Following the model of Roman military camps, these groups of warriors were structured into bands led by a lord with his retinue of loyal followers. Inspired by their service in the ...