The Roman soldiers have written to each other and further afield with an old-fashioned iron pen that they dip into the ink and write straight onto the bits of wood. And from those letters we just ...

And from those letters we just have an enormous amount of information about the Roman soldiers but others as well and exactly what they thought about living right at the edge of the empire on ...

In one letter, Petronius asks Lucinius ... Petronius writes that he’s sending money via “dromedarius,” a unit of Roman ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army ... they spent much of their free time writing letters home, asking for news and warm clothing.