The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...
Archaeologists have revealed that a Roman-era Trojan War mosaic discovered in Britain in 2020 has long been misinterpreted.
Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...
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 ...
In the summer of 2020, during Britain’s COVID lockdown, Jim Irvine noticed unfamiliar pottery scattered across his family’s farm in Rutland. When archaeologists called to the site investigated, they ...
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 ...
Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...
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 ...
The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...
A new DNA analysis concludes that the woman presented by the BBC as “the first Black Briton” had local genetic origins from ...