The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world ... The man in charge of a century was known as a ‘centurion’. He carried a short rod, to show his importance.

Centurions were officers ... It’s similar to the many hundreds of forts across Ancient Rome, with its rectangular layout, rounded corners and ditches around its perimeter.

We know the names of very few Roman centurions and legionaries, mostly those found on inscriptions and commemorative steles, along with a few mentioned in written sources. However, there are two whose ...

A Roman Centurion paced back and forth across the ... “We try to immerse people into what it would be like to be back in the ancient times, in the Middle East,” said Bill Gross, executive ...