The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it depicts an alternative "long-lost" telling of the Trojan War. The paper is ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

In 122 AD, Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to mark his empire’s British frontier. How long did it take ...

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the fact that historians have widely accepted the fact that Julius Caesar led a Roman invasion of Britain in the year 55 B.C., any physical evidence of that invasion has been completely ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti ...

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 ...

The team behind what has been described as ‘one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK’ have revealed that it depicts an alternative ‘long-lost’ telling of the Trojan War. New research ...