The find places north-east England firmly within Roman Britain's industrial heartland and suggests a level of economic sophistication previously unrecognized in this frontier region. The discovery ...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

A major ancient Roman factory found in England sheds light on tool production, with over 800 whetstones and stone anchors ...

Evidence of a Roman industrial hub in North East England dating back over 1,900 years has been unearthed.The "extraordinary" ...

Compelling evidence of a Roman industrial hub uncovered on the banks of a North East river has rewritten archaeologists' ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — Newly revealed human remains could offer a rare glimpse into life in Britain through the decline of the Roman Empire and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Experts have hailed the ...

After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of a kind once thought to be limited to modern industrial societies. That is ...

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 ...

Archaeologists may have discovered the largest ancient Roman cemetery in Britain beneath an A-road in Cumbria. Excavation ...