With Rome gone and literacy fading, one furious monk became the only contemporary voice describing Britain’s collapse.

The unexpected discovery of a well-preserved and fortified villa in Margam Park in South Wales sheds new light on the Roman ...

Researchers have examined a sediment core from the Roman town and metal production center of Aldborough in Yorkshire, revealing metal production did not collapse immediately after the Romans left ...

ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...

Scientists in Ireland have discovered the charred remains of a 2,000-year-old fig that indicates a Roman presence on the isle that was thought to be out of the storied empire’s colonial reach, ...

The health of populations in Britain declined under Roman occupation, particularly in more urban areas. There is a widely held belief that the Romans brought civilisation and its many benefits to ...

Our experts have helped uncover evidence of a Roman industrial hub on the banks of the River Wear, at Offerton, near ...

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 ...

A drought helped bring about an invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, researchers wrote in a new paper. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...