The Most Complete Set Of Roman Armour Ever Discovered!
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- In 2017, the oldest and most complete set of Roman armour was unearthed in Kalkriese, Germany. Roughly 2,000 years old, it is one of the greatest examples of Roman military equipment ever discovered, we know it as the lorica segmentata. Consisting of 40 sheets of iron fastened together with leather and buckles, it’s the iconic type of armour that we associate with Roman legionaries today.
For the first time ever, this armour has left Kalkriese to be the star attraction of a brand new exhibition at the British Museum all about the Roman army: Legion: life in the Roman army.
History Hit’s Tristan Hughes headed behind the scenes at the British Museum to discover how the curators carefully rebuilt this 2,000 year old armour. Before heading to the exhibition and seeing the armour in its final form, where British Museum curator Richard Abdy explains all about this incredible piece, its design, surviving features, maintenance and evolution.
But also its gruesome story…Dating to c.9 AD deep in the ancient forests of Germany, this lorica segmentata is linked to one of the greatest defeats the Romans ever suffered: the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The soldier who once wore this armour may well have been a victim of this devastating ambush.
Legion: life in the Roman army is open until 23 June 2024.
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You can still see the skill and workmanship.
WOW Thats Incredible and survived for 2000 years just amazing
why incredible?
It was buried...it wasn't going anywhere.
@@swampfox1776. Because its made of iron he was referring to that
@@swampfox1776.did you watch the video? Then it’s quite clear why this one is incredible.
I love that historians and reinactors are working together to understand. It seems like an odd pairing at first glance, but knowledge based on shared passion is amazing.
Good point. And actually, what better pairing to figure it all out accurately.
This movement has come so far. I had the honour to experience one of the first to start this in my school's library. Never will forget the moment Dr. Marcus Junkelmann entered the room with three other men in full legionary garb. I had seen several pieces of legionary equiment in museums - but seeing this in real life on a man is something entirely different.
Of course I had to get his book and also the other ones about his cavalry experiments. A keepsake for me.
Reenactors are historians.
Reenacting/living history makes so much sense. Having engaged in several Roman reenacting events, including 'marching' along Hadrian's wall, I feel privileged to have glimpsed history to a level beyond lectures, translations and readings. Glad the reenactors are mentioned!
It's truly impressive that this very armor now reside in a world that looks absolutely nothing it originated from. A world 2000 years ago, we could only superficially imagine.
Human nature absolutely still looks exactly the same. They were just like us. The lifestyle differences are mostly cosmetic.
War, war never changes...
The main differences are that the forests of Germania were still mostly old growth from the last Ice Age, with lots of boggy areas interspersed with local subsistance farms and villages made of huts.
The Romans were very superstitious, and feared dark, close forest. The track they were on very likely varied from nothing more than a wagon track barely 4-6 feet wide to a little more open track from time to time. It would have quickly turned to mud under Roman hobnailed boots, and become impossible for commands to reach to the end of each cohort in a legion. The narrowest Roman roads were about 8ft wide, and not paved. But these were not military routes. They were for local trade and post delivery. The Army travelled mostly on wider roads that may have been topped with pounded gravel and were 10-12 ft wide. The famous Roman hi-ways stopped within just a few miles of cities.
Thus, the campaign into the Teutoborg was a very bad tactical decision, with the soldiers have no room to defend by formation, and being attacked from both side over the course of perhaps 5 days.
@@user-fu9vj9ix3g. Did you know most of the roads we still use today in England and Wales were built by the Romans.
@@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 Well, not completely. Many routes are original Roman routes, with Roman road beds sometimes running underneath. But usually, the modern road parallels the Roman one. It really depends on the modern usage of the road because the load needs to be considered. Heavy traffic, trucks, etc will usually require a freshly engineered subsurface. Country tracks and old market roads do often over lap Roman roads, which in their day, followed native tracks.
The reasons are simple: Ancient people were just as smart as we are, and would have long determined the best, easiest routes.
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The lorica segmentata did not replace chainmail. It was used alongside chainmail and scale armor for legionaires and auxillaries alike (there are depictions of legionaires wearing chain and scale in the 2nd century AD and there are segmented armor found in auxillary bases). The Tropaeum Traiani monument in Romania for example depicts virtually all the legionaires fighting in the battle (as a part of Trajan's 2nd century AD Dacian Wars) as wearing chainmail and scale with little to nobody depicted as wearing segmented armor. Segmented armor was then phased out around the 3rd century and the Romans went back to using only chainmail and scale like they did in the past.
Trajans Column shows virtually every legonaire wearing lorica segmentata so it’s clearly in full use at that time , it could also be a regional decision which armours were used and based on many different aspects including climate and cost …The legions changed drastically from their initial inception until later empirical battles like Adrianople and styles changed also .
@@chadleschasin2893 The segmentata was indeed being used in full swing during the early 2nd century. However, historians say Trajan's Column in Rome is a propaganda piece, since there probably wasn't segregation of armor like the column implies since the other Trajan Column in Dacia/Romania (Tropaeum Traiani) depicts no segregation of armor and heavy infantry auxillary and heavy infantry legions wearing the same armors.
GREETINGS FROM ROME DEAR FRIENDS !!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRECIOUS WORK !
I would like to know how that incredible support frame and attaching parts were designed.
In addition to the point that Darius made about the chest plate being on the wrong side….which kills me… , this reconstruction shows all the plates separated. Which I can understand, they want to show all the parts as clearly as possible. But, in doing this, they distort the shape a great deal. Making it much taller than it would be as worn. This is such an amazing piece, being so much more complete than any previously found. I assume having at least some evidence from how it was found as to how the pieces were arranged. They should have displayed a modern reproduction showing how it looked as worn beside it. We modern re-enactors bang out excellent Corbridge reproductions routinely and pretty quickly.
There are some issues with the video's narration as well. The lorica segmentata did not replace chainmail. It was used alongside chainmail and scale armor for legionaires and auxillaries alike (there are depictions of legionaires wearing chain and scale in the 2nd century AD and there are segmented armor found in auxillary bases). The Tropaeum Traiani monument in Romania for example depicts virtually all the legionaires fighting in the battle (as a part of Trajan's 2nd century AD Dacian Wars) as wearing chainmail and scale with little to nobody depicted as wearing segmented armor. Segmented armor was then phased out around the 3rd century and the Romans went back to using only chainmail and scale like they did in the past (though they later adopted lamellar in the 4th or 5th centuries AD).
@@IntranetusaYou’re well versed on the subject….. The Roman army will always be a point of interest to those who have been to Rome to see things like the Coliseum and those who have not.
Absolutely phenomenal, what an amazing find. This was truly inspirational🏆🏆🏆
Truly amazing!
Thanks for the heads up. Anyone within striking distance who can get there and is a history fan will be itching to see this. There's a rather chilling looking hole in the armour which could feasibly be the entry wound.. I have never seen such a complete Roman cuirasse as this one, I mean, there ISN'T one as far as I know. It's interesting, when you consider that plate armour like this was preceded by chain mail; I wonder if there are other parallels between European let's say C14-C17 or thereabouts developments in these technologies and Roman armour evolution, from which we might be able to infer circumstantial conjecture in these things which, by intellectual 'reverse engineering' from our knowledge of medieval European armour could assist in archaeological research?
Thanks Tristan and team, and especially the German researchers and officials who's knowledge and generous efforts have facilitated this most extraordinary and exciting exhibition.
Most impressive. 🌟👍
What reenactors and archeologists have worked out is that the preferred armour types are more a result of economical factors and metallurgy than tactics. Although the later matter of course.
Early on we have the relative cost of bronze and iron. Bronze can be matter to higher quality standards and will be better than you average steel (this holds till the late middle ages in Europe), but steel is so much cheaper and most importantly, so much more available. Iron ore deposits are everywhere.
The size of iron pigs that can be smelted matters a lot as well. As well as industrial innovations like water hammers. Steel breast plates only come into use on the 15th century for that reason.
Steel wires are easy to make from any piece of scrap and from low quality iron. This is the reason why chain is prevalent from 300 bce all the way into the 1500s, any small backyard smelter can make the raw material and any village smith can make the chain given enough time. The quality willl still vary greatly.
Plate offer a better protection IF made from quality steel. But this requires semi industrial smelting and workshops. Lorica segmentata would have been more expensive than than chain.
Full metal Breastplates made from bronze where alway in use though. Price would limit their usage to higher ranking soldiers and cavalry. The golden age of the iron breastplate only began when gun powder weapons made chain and segmented plate ineffective. Quality iron breastplates were effective against firearms well into the 1700s.
Not shown in this video is the shackle displayed next to it, which was found with the armour - the label speculates that while the shackle (think neck and arm restraints on an iron pole) was Roman, it may be that this legionary was put into it, and ultimately was executed...
Interesting. Any idea about the shackle? Was it Roman?
Plausible! But would also be highly unusual because iron armour like this was expensive, and it would be extremely strange if the Germanic coalition didn't take it off of him before executing him.
Amazing piece of history!
Wonderful video, very informative. Thanks for providing a very “big” picture of the story. Thank you for the video.
Makes me want to go back in time a roll with the Roman Legion.
You wouldn't have wanted to be a soldier in those decimated legions. They didn't just lose; stragglers were hunted down and killed in horrible ways. The invaded were intent on sending a message to Rome.
This particular armour certainly belonged to killed soldier in one of worst roman defeats,are you still sure? .-)
I read somewhere that to be stationed on Hadrian's wall as a Roman soldier, was like being stationed at the wall in game of thrones... Mainly a death sentence 😂
@@11274reece It was tough duty to be assigned to Britain. Letters home describe the miserable weather and cold temperatures, which Romans hated. Hadrian's Wall was a miserable posting, and soldiers were rotated frequently. They understood morale.
As for it being a death sentence by combat. No. The wall was pretty peaceful most of the time, and people north of it passed trade through the checkpoints, back and forth. It wasn't like Game of Thrones. But if you caught cold or flu, well...
@@user-fu9vj9ix3g I didn't say anything about combat man. Just that being posted there was a death sentence and few who were posted there actually ever came home.
What a wonderful find! Also, great job creating a form to put it on. Historians are amazing. 😊
Very nice documentation about this truly unique piece of Roman military history. To add this correctly: It has now been proven that Kalkriese, the place where this armor was found, could NOT have been the famous battlefield of the VARUS battle. Nevertheless, Kalkriese is an important discovery site that undoubtedly documents that our ancestors, the Germanic tribes, were not very enthusiastic about the Roman occupation and successfully put up bitter resistance!
They did find lot of weapons mask and armor to me it sounds like a battlefield
My family went to the british museum last october for a 12 day vacation how i wished this armour was on display then..
Damn yeah. I'm envious you got to go to The British Museum at all. But I'd be dying if I'd gone and missed this exhibition too.
That was a really interesting video - and my thanks to all those involved in the production. The kind generosity displayed by the Germans in loaning it to the British museum so that we, here in Britain, can share in the delight is very much appreciated.
One of Romes greatest betrayals!
A fantastic find. A real treasure!
I'm not surprised. That whole area appears to have been an important place. The museum of Xanten is a fantastic place to visit and see whats been found - it's awesome!
Unfortunately, due to humidity, the armour suffered the severe effects of corrosion. The Egyptian objects are in 'almost new' conditions thanks to the desertic envitonmental conditions.
What an incredible find!
Fantastic find
Hope they are going to rebuild one, in order to allow visitors to understand more of it. Thanks and greegings from Germany, Chris
That already happened long prior this video was made.
Can you imagine trying to fight hand-to-hand while wearing that? Thanks for posting this fascinating video.
I can. And it was easy.
As a filmmaker myself I just wanted to say fantastic work!
Fascinating!!!!
Pfft.
I'm in South Korea, where I've seen (first hand!) rusted iron armour much MUCH older than this Roman stuff.
It's amazing to me how we just ignore the east, and how it advanced so many things we take for granted in the west today!
My dad’s bigger than your dad.
Speaking as a historian, PHWOARŔRRR!
Even after all that research and preservation, the people making the display still made an obvious error and put the plate which covers the right collar bone on the left side!
The plate above the horizontal chest bands as a curved upper edge which forms part the hole for the wearer's neck, the lower buckle evident is part of the vertical strap which connects the right upper portion of the assemble to the lower bands of the body protection, and there is a buckle just above that which held a horizontal strap from this right collar plate to the left collar plate. At the top edge, adjacent to the edge of the neck hole, the plate extends to end with a straight edge which underlaps the plate which sits over the soldiers shoulder.
Someone should go back and read Robinson's book on Imperial Roman Armour again and check their work...
Supposition...
you know more than they do?
they got a actual set of armor to work with and all you got are educated guesses to call something wrong.
@@swampfox1776. Your support of the Museum folks is admirable. But there is a long history of these issues. The first reconstructions of the later types like Corbridge and Newstead were wrong too. It takes time to get it right with fragmentary evidence. Darius has built several modern Corbridge type Lorica Segmentata’s based on the now accepted reconstructions originally published by H. Russell Robinson and slightly improved by others since. Modern re-enactors have moved things forward by actually wearing copies of these things and seeing how they work. Your typical academic rarely did this and so often made mistakes. We are VERY surprised that no one else caught this before putting this exhibit together. Just look at the plate in question. In your mind, move it over to the other side of the chest, keeping the same orientation. Doesn’t it fit better and make more sense? We all respect and admire the people working on this. But sometimes they make mistakes. Everyone does. Don’t assume they know it all just because they work for a Museum. It takes all kinds to solve these kind of problems.
@@evanmorris1178 I don't assume jack.
@@swampfox1776. Have a nice life. No one cares.
Whatever get’s you through the night, buddy.
I thinks it is fantastic to be able to see this after two thousand years in the ground, what a story that could tell of what happened there 2000 yrs ago.
Mind-blowing! In't history brilliant! 😁👍
La beauté du travail des forgerons militaire romain
Une armure guerrière véritable œuvre d’art
Un très beau testament militaire de la Rome d’auguste
😉👍👍👍
Mère pour cette belle vidéo
Very interesting
Thanks!
TRISTAN!!! Thank you!!!
Kalkriese Battleground is more connected with the aftermath years (Tiberius , Germanic & Caecina) of the actual battle .... findings at Kalkriese indicate the presents of the 1st Legion and were withheld by the lead Archeologist at the time.
Thank You.
Very impressive item
It has always interested me how the Romans were well on their way to producing plate armor, but somehow it fell out of use in favor for chain. Flexibility is one thing, but this seems to me as a precursor to brigindine. I know they are not really related, but saying…
Mail was more expensive and protective. Lots of gaps and weak points on this primative plate.
Brilliant 👏
An amazing find - and sad that men have been slaughtering each other for thousands of years … and continue to do so
Does the British Museum have any plans to have this fabulous exhibit travel to Canada or the U.S.?
It would be interesting to see a modern reproduction to see how the buckles and straps were fitted together.
Awesome. I wanna see someone reconstruct that armour as accurate as possible using any info they can get from that one
Already happened long time ago. Several reconstructions exist.
I thought this Armour was found first on Corbridge in 1964.Its rare but it's not the first discovery.
Excellent work. The thought occurs to me of asking, "Why wouldn't the Germanian tribes pick it up?" It seems likely that the Romans either trampled the corpses into the mud or were too busy pressing their attack to recover the equipment that the Romans left behind, or that there was some sort of superstition about using dead bodies as armor.
This is incredible❤️ I'm so envious🤗 of everyone who gets to see this. I would LOVE to see this in person. To know that a soldier DIED in that armor adds to the imagery🧠 2000 yrs ago!
🤭I would have been a terrible archeologist - thatsssss coming home with me! 🥰🤭❤️(Kidding!) Something this gorgeous needs to be on display for the world to see. 🥰
I always tell people that Rome's true strength was its ability to keep going after suffering even catastrophic defeats. That and their systems of alliances and rights.
People can intrinsically understand this with no effort (we know it is easy when things go your way, hard when they don't, which is the way of the world). Which makes me truly question why so many people, who know at least a bit about the Roman Empire, have never even considered this outside of the example of Hannibal's victories.
I get that for pop history, the military conquest stuff is flashy and there are reenactors to film and whatnot. It makes for good tv. I'm not talking about people who only know Rome from that kind of thing. But people who have spent at least some time actually learning about the history of Rome.
addendum: I had a western civ course at a college I addended some years back. When asked what the Romulus/Remus founding myth tells us about the Romans, my teacher was flabbergasted when I told him that it shows the city is more important than family. He had never heard anyone even suggest this. If someone teaching western civ has never heard that interpretation, it is no wonder that so many people who should know better, have this superficial take on Rome. This was back in the mid aughts.
How it's not iron particles is beyond my comprehension.
I would love to know more about how it moved with the body - surely the potential for pinching would be considerable even with fabric clothing underneath, if it wasn’t fitted correctly or got bent out of shape?
Why don't you look how it looked Like in action?There are entire armies of people using modern replicas of it.
I wonder if they are able to get a height estimate of the soldier based on the armor?
"Copper Alloy"
Sooooooo Brass or Bronze? Why did they get less descriptive?
Under their armor the legionaries wore a sort of gambeson called subarmalis
A wonderful historical coverage video of that Roman Empire's legendary armor ....where the germanic tribe's correlation defeated Roman 5 legions in infamous Tutobourg forest.....thank you 🙏 ( history Hit) channel for sharing
3 legions
Non furono sconfitti furono traditi è diverso
Infamous? Lol.
Teutoburg forest or saltus teutoburgensis
A teutoburg forest does not exist..
So this places the lorica segmentata in service with the legions at the beginning of the 1st century AD instead of at the time of the Claudian invasion of Britannia. Thank you .
Nothing is new on that information. We know that already since late 80's.Sadly many people only read outdated old texts with outdated old concepts instead of keeping in touch with newest research.
In Kalkriese there was the Battle of "Angrivarianer Wall" 16 AD, not Varus Battle.
Recent archeological evidence actually points towards Kalkriese as being the location of of the battle aswell as a assembly point for Roman expeditions further into germanic lands. Romans didn't Just fought there they stayed there for extended periods of time and even build defensive structures.
wish I could go see it. Bit far from Idaho
Wonderful piece. It brings to mind the question "Why wouldn't the Germanian tribes pick it up?" Barring something like having a superstition about using a dead man-armor, I suspect the Roman retreat and related clashes meant the dead were either trampled into the mud, or the Germanians simply didn't have the time to pick up the gear Roman's dropped or died in because they were too busy pressing their attack.
Or maybe they did? There's nothing that suggests they wouldn't use their gear?
Superstition is unlikely motif.We know from Roman descriptions and also archeology that Germanic tribes did quite normally took Roman equipment when they had chance.
Even if the victors did take lots of armour, as stated, its a very high maintenance bit of kit. It may well have rusted to uselessness within a year of neglect. In a damp forest environment, without access to copious mounts of oil, this is a goner. swords would have lasted a lot longer, due to how thick a sword is in comparison, and would need less oil, to boot.
The "Wild Wood" of late Iron Age Europe was nothing like the managed woodlands of today.
It was an impenetrable thicket.
That impediment to manoeuvre and troop disposition was why it was chosen as the ambush site in the first place.
It is quite likely that a mortally wounded trooper simply crawled into the underbrush to avoid his fate at the hands of the Germans and laid there, undiscovered, till nature closed the earth around him.
@@graham5716 Because the claim is that a dead man was likely in the armor, according to the chemical traces. True? Who know? But if true, it suggests the Germanians either didn't find it, didn't want it, or were too busy to grab it. Assuming a Germanian died in the armor, same problem: why wouldn't whoever killed him take it? It doesn't seem to be part of a proper, organized grave.
I wonder if any Roman reenactor armory has reproduced it.
Roman history excellent 😅
Now if we only had access to all the information and artifacts locked away by every government across the world.
Very interesting fakts about romans in UK...
You wonder.....from UK Spain to Iraq,crimea,to Greece,where was this man from?I'd imagine the man who died sustained injury and hid somewhere and died alone, the German tribes would of sure stripped the armour and re worked the iron for there needs ,so many stories untold
But a man died in this rip brave soldier
I wonder; the poor dead man, did his spirit travel to London with the artefact?
It's iron but we always see it depicted in shiny polished metal.
Because It was shiny and polished. Obviously it is coroded here.
My uncle has two of those in his shed. He found them in a peat bog last year. They are for sale on e-Bay.
Lies
lmao, what are you smoking?
send me link
It should be reconstructed for better studies.
It was, obviously, reconstructed already long prior this video was made.
The curator looks more like an 18th-century parliament government official with his hairstyle.
They should try to look for the other peices where they found it.
... The Hell... And why exactly do you think they did not? Doing so is very basic of Archaeology. Entire region is examined already for several decades with thousands of objects being recovered.
@@paprskomet you sound awfully up tight and bothered
@@KirkLee1983 And you naive and ignorant.
Finding metallurgic evidence from ancient times is the hardest because invaders and conquerors always melt down any precious metals they find to make their own weapons and armor
Just lucky there wasnt a city built on top of it.
i follow roman history and others closely the narrator said this armour could of been from 9ad at teutoburg forest i thought the seregated armour didnt come in till tiberious reign?? wasnt it mostly chain mail at this period
You are mentioning very old theory which is proved wrong alteady since late 80's.If you are interested in Roman army it is necessary to follow also newest research. People often do that mystake to only read old outdated texts.
Rip to the centurian who died waering this armor
CenturiON.We have no conclusive evidence that Centurions wore it. It is not impossible but it is much more likely this one belonged to common soldier so why linking it to Centurion specifically?
Look at the condition of that armor! That soldier is a disgrace to his unit. I'm surprised his CO would tolerate it.
sad no original leather armor survived it took 3 cows to make it was almost as strong as iron
Is more like modern day armour but not heavy armour type
thats awesome
Varus, Teutoberg forest human sacrifice ?
SPQR
And…que the Metatron reaction video in 3…2…1
3:21 Has this man got a sheep on his head?
Ewe! That joke is baaaaaaaad. I think someone pulled the wool over your eyes.
I hope there is no life after death in any way shape or form. Because, just imagine, 0:33 “somebody died inside”, and about 2000 years later, they find your stuff, could not care less about who _you_ might have been honestly, but, hey, they get crazy about your stuff! I mean, _hey, they got your stuff!_
That is incorrect. In reality any researcher would be quite happy to know as much as possible about soldier who wore it.
No my friends, the most complete is one that u guys dont know and will never know, am from spain and i have a friend that ilegally takes things out of the land with a metal detector, i live in rural spain, we have places that havent been pass trough archaeologists, cause ppl here use it for hunt and stuff, and hunter didnt want to ppl from the govermet around their places, and one off this places is a roman village, that is just like 50 meters away from, and celtiberian village ruin, and my friend with his metal detector use to go to this kind of places, we also in rural spain, know where ancient battles has got places, we know some places where u find napoleonic stuff, civil war stuff, celtiberian stuff, roman stuff. so trust me guys, thats not the most complete set of roman armor ever discovered, the most complete has been ilegally taken from the ground, and is in someones house.
I know one thing, hot molten liquids as tar, really sucked!
Jude Law... is that you?
Did all the Roman soldiers have to be dressed by handlers before battle ?
I’ve never worn a modern reproduction of this exact type, but the later Corbridge type I have worn is easy to put on yourself. Once all the adjustments are made via buckles to fit it to you, you can basically put it on like a coat and fasten it up the front. Not terribly heavy either. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty protective, especially in combination with the excellent helmet and shield that went with it.
Jawdropping.😮
This is very interesting but one thing is extremely irritating. “Chainmail” is incorrect. It’s either “chain” or “mail”; the two words mean the same thing. Any medievalist would tell you. I’d have thought professional historians would know.
Pedent
@@julianshepherd2038 yes, I can be a pedant when it’s important. This is professional historians perpetuating an error when they should be correcting it.
@@julianshepherd2038 ignorant
I shoulda went 2 University
They must have been stronger than we are today. Can you imagine going into battle weighted down with armor?
Weight they wore was comparable with that worn by modern soldiers.
It may look heavy, but it was remarkabkly light and agility was high. Modern re-creations show unllimited movemnts and no real cost in speed of manuever. That said: Yes, Romans troops were generaly superior in stamina to their enemies, because they were professionals who drilled five days a week, with forced marches in full kit of 20 miles. Physical fitness was widely respected among the Romans, and a weak legionary wouldn't be weak for long with their training regimen. They were also veryhealthy compared totheir enemies. A professional medical corps travelled with each legion, insuring that every soldier was as clean and healthy as possible. The rules they developed for how and where to build their camps to avoid disease is amazing, and their treatment of battle trauma was not equalled until the introduction of morphine and anesthesia. They had opium tincture for pain and were very effective in preventing infections. US Civil War field hospitals were nothing more than butcher shops and disease vectors compared to Roman field surgeries.
Modern combat gear is actually heavier than that. Especially if you're a military engineer.
Just saw that in the British Museum - sobering 😕
What were you doing at the British Museum when you were drunk? Cheers!
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Pieces of fear and oppression, worn by some incredibly brave, yet utterly ruthless men at arms. Bit like the dreaded Black, of the Leibstandarte SS "Praetorian Guard" in another era, to me.
They're nuts for sending it to the British museum. It's not coming back
Roubles or crypto..?
Ignorant comment.. if it wasn't for the british museum, most of the artefacts wouldn't exist today
The Romans were very inventive than we give them credit for.
No they get plenty of credit for shaping western civilization
Meaning?
I just realized that there’s not much difference between a medieval brigandine and Roman lorica segmentata 🧐
Brigandine is same idea but much better. Fewer gaps.
If i was a soldier, i wouldn’t wear something that will affect my movements. Plus i wouldn’t want to be cooked inside of an oven. This is not what soldiers would’ve worn. Most likely for ceremonial purposes.
Are you stupid or something? It's not like soldiers get to pick what they wear. Also, this is what Romans wore into battle. Well, some did, most had chainmail since it was cheaper. Now, for mobility you do know this was just a chest piece right. The Romans didn't wear leg armor. Full armor didn't come till about the 15-1600s. Even still the armor then was still pretty flexible back then. He's a video showing it: czcams.com/video/qzTwBQniLSc/video.htmlsi=ORquCBd5riG6X140