In 43 AD, Rome launched its invasion of Britain, aiming to expand its empire. The Roman forces, led by Aulus Plautius, met a ...

A reconstruction drawing of Hadrian’s wall, a rebellion within its garrison allowed the Picts to invade northern Britain during the Barbarian Conspiracy - Heritage Images/Historic England Roman rule ...

Archaeologists find hundreds of Roman and British gold and silver coins in the Netherlands, the Bunnik hoard, links to ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the queen of a Celtic tribe in Britain led a bloody revolt against the Romans. Queen Boudica, a ruler of the Iceni tribe of Celtic Britons in the first century A.D., challenged ...

ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit in Surrey may have belonged to domestic dogs, but it's unclear if ...

There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England’s Henry I (1100-1135) ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

When the Roman Empire withdrew from Britain, the result was not chaos and economic collapse. The metals industry in what is now northern England continued and even expanded in the subsequent centuries ...