Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name ...
What did the Romans do for us? When the Romans invaded in AD43, they really liked Ancient Britain, but they weren’t too impressed with the Ancient Britons. The Romans pretty much thought they ...
First Gladiator Fights Were Organized in Roman Britain; Researchers Find Evidence of Combat on a Clay Vase Ancient Roman ...
BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...
Norfolk was an important part of Roman Britain, with many large villas that acted as the hubs of farming estates, Marsden said. One of Britain's longest Roman roads passed through the region; and the ...
The hole full of bones—the largest ritual deposit discovered of its kind dating to the Roman Britain period—gives archaeologists hints about the ways that conquered British did—and didn’t ...
A Roman sculpture which was found on a development site had its head and right hand chopped off in a “ritual”, a new study ...
Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.
The basilica, whose newly excavated foundations and walls were found in the basement of a commercial building in London, was the first of its kind in Roman Britain. "This is one of the most ...
Experts are investigating the discovery of a mysterious Roman artefact uncovered in an Iron Age settlement under an Ayrshire distillery. Archaeologists believe the enamelled bronze brooch may have ...
In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...