Arrowheads, axes and coins: Archaeologists have located a battlefield dating back to the 3rd century AD in a forest in northern Germany. An entire Roman legion equipped with battle catapults of the kind portrayed in the film "Gladiator" is believed to have fought a Germanic tribe here.
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Historians say the discovery of the battlefield is so significant because it appears to refute the assumption that the Romans withdrew from Germania after their defeat by an alliance of Germanic tribs at the battle of the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD.
Many of the weapons found are in good condition and they prove that Roman armies were still engaging in major military operations far north of the Alps at a time when the Roman Empire was in terminal decline.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596619,00.html
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Historians say the discovery of the battlefield is so significant because it appears to refute the assumption that the Romans withdrew from Germania after their defeat by an alliance of Germanic tribs at the battle of the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD.
Many of the weapons found are in good condition and they prove that Roman armies were still engaging in major military operations far north of the Alps at a time when the Roman Empire was in terminal decline.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596619,00.html
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Vanhimmat
200-lukua kutsutaan myös sotilasanarkian ajaksi (235-284). Keisarit vaihtuivat tiheään, useat heistä murhattiin tai sitten he kaatuivat taistelussa.
Levottomuuden johtuivat vallitsevan käsityksen mukaan ilmeisesti siitä, että armeija oli keskitetty Rooman ympäristöön.
Viittaisikohan tuo uusi arkeologinen löytö kostoretkeen? Isolla porukalla ja järeillä aseilla?
Roope