A previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial site in northern England could provide key clues about a a largely undocumented period in British history, officials announced this week. The government ...

A new report from Bournemouth University (BU) has shattered an old theory about an iconic war cemetery in Dorset, that the Roman army slaughtered dozens of people. The truth turns out to be much more ...

Romans occupying London in the 3rd century were so fearful of attacks from unruly local tribes that they encircled the city in protective walls, including one severing the provincial capital from its ...

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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 ...

An unprecedented find at northern England's ancient Roman fort, Vindolanda, has revealed the previously little-known history of boxing in the Roman Empire. Two boxing gloves were unearthed at the site ...

At the very limit of their influence and control, Britain was considered the far northern edge of the Roman Empire. Establishing themselves in Londinium, they were famously unable to conquer what ...

Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s “Iliad” as originally deduced, the mosaic may be of the same conflict in Aeschylus’ “Phrygians.” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Published annually (in November) by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, Britannia is the foremost journal for the study ...