The "headless Romans" from Eboracum (modern York in England) made a splash when forensic analysis of the graveyard was first announced in 2010. Excavated between 2004-2005, the cemetery contained ...

An archeological site at the Roman city of Eboracum (which is today the English city of York) uncovered a mass graveyard. Its inhabitants weren’t just any Romans, however.

Eboracum, the Roman name for York, sounds exotic and Latinised to our ears, and on initial consideration, appears to have little in common with the city's modern-day name.

The man’s remains, which date to between the years 200 and 300, come from what may have been a gladiator cemetery in the Roman city of Eboracum, now called York, the researchers report April 23 ...

Scientists have determined that bite marks on the pelvis of a man buried in what is believed to be a cemetery for gladiators near the English city of York, known at the time as Eboracum, were made ...

The Eboracum plans - which included a two-year archaeological dig - would have done the same for York's Roman past, York Archaeology said (Image: Supplied) But not everybody was happy with the plans.

There are remnants of some of Eboracum's buildings and city walls, though no amphitheatre has yet been identified. Eighty-two human skeletons, mostly well-built younger men, ...

The Roman Quarter project concerns a new underground Roman museum – Eboracum – along with an 88-room aparthotel, 153 new apartments and new office space in Rougier Street.