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Roman Britain

August 2024

  • Illustration of a fort with green hills in the background

    ‘Humongous’ fort found in Wales may disprove theory of Celtic-Roman peace

    Site in Pembrokeshire suggests area was more militarised than previously thought, says expert who made discovery

May 2024

  • A colourful landscape in early September 2015, with a stone wall and a hawthorn tree lit up with the first sunlight of the day, overlooking Hope valley covered in a layer of morning mist and the heather in full purple bloom.

    Hobbyist archaeologists identify thousands of ancient sites in England

    Exclusive: Bronze age remains and Roman roads among 12,802 sites discovered using latest technology
  • The Norton Disney dodecahedron, one of 33 such objects to have been discovered in Britain

    Notes and queries
    What could the Roman dodecahedron have been used for?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

    • Is this the answer to the Roman dodecahedron puzzle that has archaeologists stumped?

    • Brief letters
      Bomber crews had each other’s backs, unlike Tory MPs

    • Brief letters
      When the milkman sparked a local panic

April 2024

  • Naomi Klein speaks to Jewish protesters calling for the US to stop arming Israel at a demonstration in Brooklyn, New York, on 23 April.

    Brief letters
    I hope Naomi Klein’s words spur calls for a Gaza ceasefire and justice for Palestinians

  • The Norton Disney dodecahedron.

    Mysterious Roman dodecahedron to go on display in Lincoln

March 2024

  • The shell collection on display

    Shells from Captain Cook’s final voyage saved from skip

    Important collection rediscovered during house-clearing includes numerous rare species

February 2024

  • Roman head of Mercury found at Small Hythe

    ‘Very rare’ clay figurine of Mercury discovered at Roman site in Kent

  • The Aylesbury egg

    Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years

  • The funerary bed being excavated and a reconstruction.

    ‘Flat-packed furniture for the next life’: Roman funerary bed found in London

  • A bedbug

    ‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the Romans

January 2024

  • Ancient wonders … the only complete surviving legionary long shield on display at Legion.

    Legion: Life in the Roman Army review – ‘More than just a blood and guts orgy of military might’

    British Museum, London
    From monsters to messiahs, from rebels to republics, from sex workers to chilled-out lovers, this wildly enjoyable blockbuster delivers a Rome for everyone
  • ‘It was killing fields as far as the eye can see’ … the Latin-inscribed slabs crossing the site of the battle, which features in the British Museum show Legion.

    ‘Their heads were nailed to the trees’: what was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?

    It was the defeat that traumatised Rome, leaving 15,000 soldiers slaughtered in a German field. As a major show explores this horror and more, our writer finds traces of the fallen by a forest near the Rhine
  • Conservator Bethan Bryan with the Roman arm guard.

    ‘Absolutely amazing’: 1,800-year-old shattered Roman arm guard is reconstructed from 100 pieces

    Fragments pieced together by National Museums Scotland to restore soldier’s brass guard, only the third of its kind known to exist

November 2023

  • Elagabalus

    Was Roman emperor Elagabalus really trans – and does it really matter?

    Teenage ruler has become genderqueer icon but historians including Mary Beard advise caution over ‘tall stories’

September 2023

  • A man sitting on the grass near a Roman amphitheatre

    Pass notes
    The Roman empire: why men just can’t stop thinking about it

    Women across the world are asking men how often the ancient civilisation pops into their head – and the answer is frequently startling

July 2023

  • Some of the artefacts discovered by archaeologists in Kent.

    ‘Giant’ 300,000-year-old handaxes unearthed in Kent

    Discovery of more than 800 artefacts includes some of largest early prehistoric stone tools in Britain

June 2023

  • A Museum of London Archaeology team working on part of the Liberty Mosaic

    ‘Astonishing’ Roman tomb unearthed near London Bridge station

    Some of the largest Roman mosaics found in 50 years were unearthed on same site last year
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