The empire's official story, and everything they left out.
Excavators at the Roman fortress of Novae in Bulgaria have exposed more than 3,000 square metres of a building, with baths and luxury fittings, that they say may be the home of the legion's commander. They stress that this is not yet confirmed.
23 Oct 2026University of Córdoba researchers say a geomagnetic survey has mapped a 48-metre Roman building beside the Córdoba–Mérida road. It has not been dug, and their reading rests on its plan.
23 Oct 2026Rome says restoration of the Painted City fresco and the Great Mosaic is finished. The press release gives dimensions that don't match a figure for the mosaic given in early coverage.
22 Oct 2026A study in the journal Cedrus describes a 4.8 cm bearded Silenos head on a fragmentary terracotta sarcophagus lid from Attouda, Türkiye. The find was disturbed and undated by grave goods, so the author's reading is an interpretation.
21 Oct 2026National Museums Scotland has unveiled a facial reconstruction of a man who died at Inveresk, near Edinburgh, between AD 140 and 165. His skull goes on show in November.
21 Oct 2026Excavators at Castelo dos Mouros on Ons Island, Galicia, report a wall of apparent Iron Age date lying beneath the levels of use of a Roman-period room, outside the hillfort's rampart.
21 Oct 2026A third-century silver amulet from Roman Nida carries a prayer to Jesus. Scholar Santiago Guijarro argues it shows Christian words reached the frontier, but that it tells us rather less about what its wearer believed.
21 Oct 2026The Soprintendenza says new excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter at Macchia delle Valli, near Vetralla, push evidence of use back to protohistory. The site reopens to the public on Saturday 24 October 2026.
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