Their heads were nailed to the trees': what was life and death like for Roman legionnaires?
Briefly

The historian Tacitus describes what Germanicus finds: the ghastly human wreckage of a supposedly unbeatable army, deep in the Teutoburg Forest.
Survivors pointed out the spot where Varus had killed himself, and the place where the military standards had been flaunted by the victors.
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