The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

Pax Romana is often cited as a model for Pax Americana, both emerging after periods of war to guarantee security and order. But as Pax Americana wanes, at least in the view of Shlomo Ben-Ami, a ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...

Hadrian’s Wall stretched 80 Roman miles, from coast to coast. A monumental feat of engineering that marked the edge of the ...

Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our ...

Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics. An analysis of ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also were ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it depicts an alternative "long-lost" telling of the Trojan War. The paper is ...

Most European towns have a standard routine for December. You get the twinkling lights, the Christmas markets, mulled wine, maybe a Santa Claus parade. But in the English town of Chester, things get a ...