[SunkenCiv]

The world's only intact Roman shield is set to go on display in a new exhibition at the British Museum. The shield, which is on its maiden transatlantic loan from Yale University in the US, was found in Syria in the 1930s

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[Paladin2]

Nice work, if one can get it...

[Chode]

was found in a German field after being buried for more than 2,000 years

was found in Syria in the 1930s.

OK, i am confusion...

[ScaniaBoy]

Roman body armour undergoes analysis

[nutmeg]

Interesting... thanks for posting! :-)

[BobL]

They are welcome to call them “Germanic tribesmen”, but anyone well-versed in Ancient History knows they were actually BARBARIANS.

[NautiNurse]

The shield is stunning.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

“Quintili Vare, legiones redde!” -Augustus

[Pelham]

Germans led by Arminius, who gained his knowledge of Roman military tactics when he served as a Roman soldier and gained Roman citizenship.

[Bull Snipe]

Legio aeterna, aeterna victrix

[Red Badger]

>The shield ... was found in Syria in the 1930s.<

Those Germanic tribesmen were a long way from Germany............

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“VARUS! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Just remembered these little diddys from I Claudius...

Lord Augustus kept knocking his
head against the wall:

Lord Augustus each time bawling
As he fetched his head a crack,
“Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give me my three Eagles back!”

Lord Augustus tore his bedclothes,
Blankets, sheet and counterpane.
“Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give my Regiments back again!”

[Billthedrill]

It's all well and good until you add a gladius and a helmet to the mix and the thing reanimates in the museum at midnight and goes around hacking and slashing the museum staffers, a sepulchral voice intoning "Varus! Where are my leggings?"

I get all my history from horror movies.

[algore]