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Chestnut trees reveal the lasting impact of the Roman Empire on Europe’s landscape, showing how Romans shaped forestry across ...
Experts identified the object as a “chunky Roman ring” that was likely lost by the wearer sometime between A.D. 200 and 410, when the Romans were well-established in Britain, according to the post.
In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...
Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...
The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...
(How to see the remains of ancient Rome in modern-day Britain.) “The rules they followed in Rome were not necessarily applied in godforsaken Eboracum. So, although the man was probably not a ...
Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...
Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the individual was likely bitten by a lion.
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 ...
Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD ...
A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an analysis of his remains ...