The Colchester vase contains the remains a male of about 40 years of age and not of local origin. Could he have been a gladiator?
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Phallic graffiti was more than just funny in Roman Britain.
Increasing rainfall and degrading peatland are threatening archaeological artefacts buried in UK land.
The Atlantic slave trade isn’t Britain’s first brush with forced labour.
Let’s worry about the future of Brexit, not its prehistory.
Her stand against the European invaders really didn’t have a happy ending.
Once Britain slipped away from the Roman Empire in the early 5th century, signs of Roman life began to disappear.
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.
The new TV show Britannia dramatises the second Roman invasion of Britain. It captures the core elements of the story (despite inaccuracies) but recent archaeological finds offer thrilling insights into this time.
A row about whether Roman Britain was ethnically diverse has turned nasty.
During a 1988 excavation on London Wall 39 human skulls were discovered. But they remained shrouded in mystery. Now though, forensic analysis of the skulls by bio-archaeoloist Rebecca Redfern, shows that…
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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