Only one victim of crucifixion has ever been identified in Roman Britain: The man’s skeleton—with a two-inch nail driven through its heel bone—was discovered during a dig in Cambridgeshire ...

Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries was a key event in the formation of England. Following the collapse of Roman control over Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, a group of tribes ...

It tells not of redemption or massacre at the hands of invading “Anglo-Saxons” but of “a negotiated and mixed identity” that took shape over centuries. In many places, Romano-British ...

The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and founded Londinium, the basis of modern London, shortly afterwards. Their occupation lasted for almost 400 years, ending in 410 AD.

Archaeologists in London have painstakingly pieced together thousands of fragments of an ancient Roman fresco that has not been seen for 1,800 years. "It was like assembling the world's most ...

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of Roman tweezers in Britain, revealing the ancient culture’s obsession with hairlessness. The collection has now gone on display in a new museum at Wroxeter ...

“Every generation has used Roman Britain as a kind of mirror to play out its own anxieties about identity, about nationhood, about empire and power.” In Greig’s hands, that complex tangle ...

Romans Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, ... This piece was updated at 1:21 p.m. ET on July 25 to remove the identity of one of the sources to avoid revealing ...

Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist The Dark Hero has finally revealed his true identity. The performer wowed viewers with his operatic vocals this week when he covered Let It Go from the musical ...