A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

Many of today’s visitors who flock to Bath in the west of England do so because of Jane Austen. The great novelist (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, etc.) lived in Bath (although she never ...

The decoration was uncovered in 2024 by a metal detectorist scanning the dirt near Harlow, not far from London. It’s a ...

Metal detectorists and archaeologists unearthed over 400 of ancient British, Roman and African coins linked to a military conquest, photos show. Photo from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the ...

An abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction taking place on an industrial scale at a Roman site in rural Kent have left archaeologists with a 1500-year-old mystery. Silver extraction on an industrial ...

“Beauty is pain” was a maxim the Ancient Romans lived by. During near daily trips to communal bathhouses, Romans paid to have their skin scraped, ears scooped out, and body hair plucked. The ...