The empire's official story, and everything they left out.
A Roman coffin dug up at Westminster Abbey in 1869 held a medieval skeleton. Prof Warwick Rodwell now proposes it was an abbot, most likely Ælfwig, though Wulnoth is the alternative.
21 Oct 2026Rescue excavations in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, recorded a necropolis of 135 burial structures. In one child's grave were two gold earrings and a coin of Aurelian struck at Serdica in AD 274-275.
18 Oct 2026A 2026 geophysical survey at Pompeii's buried suburban villa finds that many walls appear to lie just half a metre below the surface — far better preserved than the research team had assumed.
18 Oct 2026Excavators digging the civilian settlement beside Kapersburg Roman fort in Germany's Taunus have uncovered a temple dedicated to Mars, along with votive stones and a Victoria statuette, according to Hessen's heritage office.
17 Oct 2026Dr Mark Merrony reports a Roman fort in Pembrokeshire and argues it connects to a medieval Welsh tale of the emperor Magnus Maximus. Wolfson College says further research is needed to establish any such link.
16 Oct 2026A complete quern stone from a layer that pre-dates the stone villa at Rossett shows the site has a longer history, the dig team says.
11 Oct 2026A 2026 dig at Vulci's Polledrara necropolis has uncovered a monumental late seventh-century BC tomb inside a mound first identified in 1889. Its chambers held a banquet service, weapons and chariot parts.
10 Oct 2026Archaeologists at Šurany, Slovakia, report a Roman marching camp from the Marcomannic Wars era. It has five gates, a clavicula, military kit and many human remains, and its excavators still have basic questions about the dead.
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