One of the most enduring legends of Roman Britain concerns the disappearance of the Ninth Legion. The theory that 5,000 of Rome's finest soldiers were lost in the swirling mists of Caledonia ...

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 ...

The last recorded mention of a lost Roman legion has gone on show at the Yorkshire Museum. The fate of one of the Roman Empire's most distinguished legions, the Ninth, is the subject of a new film ...