In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a vast horse cemetery from Roman times, a discovery that is "very rare," according ...

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

The site, which likely once housed a roman cavalry unit, shows evidence of the respect soldiers had for their mounts.

“The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse” is a saying that holds true for the Roman Empire, which expanded ...

The horses in this burial site belonged to a Roman cavalry unit, or 'Ala,' stationed at Hallschlag in the 2nd century AD.

The Roman cavalry unit at Bad Cannstatt patrolled the border of the Roman Empire from about A.D. 100 to 150. "The horsemen were responsible for controlling their section of the border," Roth said.

During the first half of the 2nd century AD, Bad Cannstatt, near the discovery site, was a major Roman military hub in ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation (LAD) ...

More than 100 horses from a Roman cavalry unit found in Stuttgart. Credit: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart / ArchaeoBW Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument ...

Following painstaking conservation and reassembly of broken parts it is now the centrepiece of the Roman gallery in Lancaster City Museum, part of Lancashire County Museum Service.