Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name ...

BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...

First Gladiator Fights Were Organized in Roman Britain; Researchers Find Evidence of Combat on a Clay Vase Ancient Roman ...

Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

Was it a bar brawl? Archaeologists will never know what killed these two people found near an ancient Roman site.

Norfolk was an important part of Roman Britain, with many large villas that acted as the hubs of farming estates, Marsden ...

Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.

Experts are investigating the discovery of a mysterious Roman artefact uncovered in an Iron Age settlement under an Ayrshire distillery. Archaeologists believe the enamelled bronze brooch may have ...

At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile place with little to do. Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of ...

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In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...