The empire's official story, and everything they left out.
A Roman coffin, a Saxon cross and a skeleton radiocarbon-dated to 987–1052. Professor Warwick Rodwell's new paper narrows the occupant of Westminster Abbey's sarcophagus to two abbots.
27 Oct 2026Burgas municipality says the Latin inscription on the base of a Trajan statue, found this year at Aquae Calidae, has been read: it dates to AD 100 and names the council of Deultum.
27 Oct 2026Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw have uncovered more than 3,000 square metres of a monumental building at the Roman fortress of Novae in Bulgaria. They say it may be the legion commander's residence, but it still needs confirming.
26 Oct 2026The University of Sheffield says a technician has reproduced the glass behind the Lycurgus Cup's green-to-red colour change. Here is what was made, and what experts believe the Romans did.
26 Oct 2026A Roman cavalry helmet found by a metal detectorist in Cumbria in May 2010 sold at Christie's for about £2.3 million. Here is what the finding, the sale and the later excavation add up to.
26 Oct 2026Municipal archaeologists in Fréjus have uncovered a complete Roman domus with a marble basin, and the remains of a monumental complex that may be a temple or sanctuary.
26 Oct 2026A Herculaneum papyrus that was assigned a readability score of zero after part of it was opened in the 1980s, according to UKNow, has been read in full from X-ray scans, the Vesuvius Challenge says. Its content looks Stoic. Its author had not been identified when it was announced.
26 Oct 2026INRAP archaeologists dug a Roman potters' workshop at Sermaize, in northern France, with 21 kilns and traces of every step from clay to firing. The site is due to lie under a canal port.
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