Roman occupation brought new diseases to Britain, archaeologists find - Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...

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Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for Britain. Roads, towns, stone and brick buildings, plumbing, writing (IOUs), vineyards and ...

In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located ...

Beneath an office building in London, the first Roman civic basilica appears, revealing the lost ancient town hall of ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have unearthed what they believe to be two previously unknown Roman villas in England’s West Midlands, per the BBC. Researchers conducting a pioneering survey at ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...

Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.

What began as an extremely rare discovery of two Roman swords by a metal detectorist has led to an enormous Early-Middle Iron Age find in the Cotswolds in south-west England. Archaeological ...

Two Roman swords found in Gloucestershire reveal a hidden settlement dating back 2,000 years and the possible remains of a ...