"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

Archaeologists now believe 4th Century remains unearthed in Colchester are probably those of Britain's earliest known church.

Images of gladiators being mauled by lions have been featured on mosaics and pottery, but this is the first time skeletal ...

Scientists link the 367 CE Barbarian invasion of Roman Britain to severe drought, revealing climate’s hidden role in the ...

BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our ... with the soldiers coming out and washing themselves in the morning and at the end of the day.

The Romans invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought new influences, and their own gods were combined with native British gods to produce religious hybrids. It also paved the way for a new religion ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to death by a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study reports. However, scholars who were not ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The discovery involves a skeleton found in 2004 at Driffield Terrace in York ...

But actual gladiator remains are relatively scarce in the archaeological record — and in Britain specifically, which was occupied by the Romans from the first through fifth centuries ...

Left: From the research paper: Unique osteological evidence for human-animal gladiatorial combat in Roman Britain. Right: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons ...