Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population's health ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

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

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 ...

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

A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...

A rare Roman-era mosaic discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland has been found to depict a forgotten version of the ...

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 ...

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Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

A metal detectorist finds up to 15,000 Roman coins in Wales, a discovery that redefines local history and surprises ...