On the first floor of Harrison Hall the Classical Studies Department has a display of replica Roman arms and armor. Most of the materials were acquired from Bernie Barcio, a Latin teacher in Indiana ...
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What did Roman soldiers do when their chain mail required fixing? Head to a local craftspersonResearchers from Czechia and Germany examined a 14-kilogram clump of ancient Roman mail armor discovered ... two nearly complete sets of mail armor and parts of two more, all rusted together ...
JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...
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Chain mail find shows local craftworkers were involved in the repair of Roman armorIt consists of two nearly complete mail garments and parts of two others ... "To look inside the solid mass of Roman armor, only CT scans provided satisfactory results." According to the authors ...
A Roman soldier was a well-trained fighting machine. He could march 20 miles a day, wearing all his armour and equipment. He could swim or cross rivers in boats, build bridges and smash his way ...
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