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In addition to ancient Roman pottery, jewelry, rare coins, and evidence of a road system, the 18-acre site in Newington, ...
"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, but also played a role in the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a catastrophic ...
Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England. Daniel Graham, 39 ...
Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.
For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...
The Sycamore Gap tree in England stood near an ancient Roman wall and was Hollywood-famous. 'A national treasure,' said an ...
The extraordinary colonia, founded by Roman soldiers between the 2nd and 3rd centuries, yielded several remarkable ...
The tree was far from Britain’s biggest or oldest. But the way the tree's graceful canopy filled the saddle in the hills ...
A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...
There was no "rancour" or "politcking" in the conclave to elect the new pope, England and Wales's most senior Roman Catholic ...
Amphitheatres might have been added to the list; large towns, even in faraway Roman Britain, had arenas, in which spectacles of mindless cruelty were staged for public entertainment. British ...
Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...