HISTORICAL CAMPAIGNS
Follow the great campaigns and battles that shaped the ancient world, from strategy and commanders to the men who fought and died in them.
Ed Lost Legions explores the ancient world through three paths: the campaigns that broke empires, the weapons that shaped battlefields, and the warriors who fought across them.
Follow the great campaigns and battles that shaped the ancient world, from strategy and commanders to the men who fought and died in them.
In 53 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus led one of the Roman Republic’s most powerful armies into Mesopotamia, hoping to conquer Parthia and rival the military glory of Caesar and Pompey.
The campaign ended in disaster. At Carrhae, the Roman legions were destroyed and Crassus was killed.
In 9 AD, Publius Quinctilius Varus led three Roman legions deep into Germania, believing the region was already under Roman control.
In the Teutoburg Forest, Arminius turned Rome’s own confidence against it. Three legions vanished, and their numbers were never used again.
In 202 BC, Scipio Africanus and Hannibal met on the plains of North Africa in the final great battle of the Second Punic War.
Zama broke Carthage’s military power and confirmed Rome as the dominant force of the western Mediterranean.
Discover the peoples and warrior cultures that fought for Rome, against Rome, and far beyond its frontiers.
Discover the peoples, weapons and fighting traditions of ancient Iberia, from Iberians and Celtiberians to the warrior cultures that resisted, fought alongside and ultimately became part of Rome.
Explore the weapons, armour and military equipment of antiquity through archaeology, reconstruction and historical context.
Explore the evolution, regional traditions and archaeological record of Celtic helmets across Iron Age Europe, from their earliest forms to the centuries of contact and conflict with Rome.