The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many ...
Does This Ancient Roman Artefact Proves Gladiators Fought in Roman Britain?' The renowned Colchester Gladiator Vase dates back to 175 AD and remains one of the most remarkable antiquarian objects ever ...
An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...
The British Museum's “Gladiators of Britain,” now at the Grosvenor Museum, sheds fresh light on the realities of spectacle in the northern reaches of the Roman Empire. A tinned, bronze gladiator’s ...
LONDON — Newly revealed human remains could offer a rare glimpse into life in Britain through the decline of the Roman Empire and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Experts have hailed the ...
Ancient Historian at University of Leicester reveals that the Rutland mosaic depicts an alternative telling of the Trojan War ...
The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...
Roman era fetters with central padlock, iron, Great Casterton, UK (Image by permission of the Museum of London Archaeology company MOLA) Two different discoveries at sites within Roman Britain have ...
After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of a kind once thought to be limited to modern industrial societies. That is ...
Roman occupation brought new diseases to Britain, archaeologists find - Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to ...