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Deep Dive: Romans may have set fire to Celtic town during conquest to 'humiliate' the enemy, archaeologists find

Ran in the Morning edition of LivePulse, Monday, October 19, 2026
Original reporting: Live Science Archaeology · Kristina Killgrove, 2026-10-19

Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman military camp in Spain, where they found fragments of weapons and metal tacks from soldiers' shoes. The camp was used during the Cantabrian Wars fought by Emperor Augustus as he expanded the Roman Empire in the first century B.C. The fortified military camp is made up of an earthen platform roughly 39 feet (12 meters) wide, which is surrounded by a stone perimeter wall about 5 feet (1.5 m) thick, according to a translated statement.

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