Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including ...
The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roman occupation brought new diseases to Britain, archaeologists find - Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...
The skeletal remains of this Roman-aged female individual were uncovered in the collections of Eastbourne Town Hall in 2012. Subsequent research suggested her origins were in sub-Saharan Africa; ...
The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...
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The ruins of Tintagel Castle sit on a dramatic headland attached to southwest England’s Cornish coast. At the beginning of the fifth century A.D., the people of the province of Britannia found ...
The A68 road in Northumberland here follows the alignment of Dere Street, the Roman road from York to the central belt of Scotland. Spare a thought for historian and TV presenter Dan Jones, battered ...