For years, families walked their dogs and children kicked footballs across an unremarkable patch of grass, unaware that an untouched Roman villa lay just beneath their feet. The discovery of this ...
Excavation work also reveals more details about Colchester's Roman architecture.
Under its Roman name Camulodunum, Colchester was granted colonia status in AD 49, becoming the earliest recorded capital in Roman Britain.
For centuries, a towering, ancient wall has stood anomalously amidst fields and farmland in central Shropshire. Known as the ...
It became the first major Roman city and the first capital before London took over later.
An office building from the 1930s in the heart of London was about to be demolished and redeveloped by its owners — until archaeologists unearthed remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica in the ...