With Rome gone and literacy fading, one furious monk became the only contemporary voice describing Britain’s collapse.

The find places north-east England firmly within Roman Britain's industrial heartland and suggests a level of economic sophistication previously unrecognized in this frontier region. The discovery ...

A major ancient Roman factory found in England sheds light on tool production, with over 800 whetstones and stone anchors ...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

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 ...

History Hit’s Tristan Hughes heads behind the scenes at the British Museum to get a special look at items from their upcoming exhibition touring the UK: Gladiators of Britain. Taking visitors back ...

Archeologists working in central England have found a shackled skeleton which, they say, provides physical evidence that slavery was practiced in Roman Britain. The adult male was buried in a ditch ...

Compelling evidence of a Roman industrial hub uncovered on the banks of a North East river has rewritten archaeologists' ...

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 ...

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