The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Hoxne Hoard is one of Britain's unique archaeological finds, not just by its value, but also by how it was found. Various sources note the Hoxne Hoard as the largest hoard of Roman treasure ever ...

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 ...

What happens when the greatest empire in the world pulls out and leaves you to your fate? Who fills the power vacuum? Who keeps law and order? How does civilisation survive? AD 410: the Empire is in ...

How important was Britain to the careers of the Romans who were posted here - was it like being sent to Siberia or being sent to Paris? Britain was used as a base for usurpers throughout its history ...