Archeologists are hopeful that an ancient Roman aristocrat's remains recently unearthed in northern England will shed light on the region's transition from Roman rule to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that ...

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Volunteer archaeologists are set to return to the remains of a Roman settlement after making the most significant discovery ...

British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were ...

A previously undiscovered 1,600-year-old burial site in northern England could provide key clues about a a largely undocumented period in British history, officials announced this week. The government ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have unearthed what they believe to be two previously unknown Roman villas in England’s West Midlands, per the BBC. Researchers conducting a pioneering survey at ...

The 1,600-year-old remains of a middle-age man buried alongside an ornate belt decorated with images of dolphins and dogs have been found in a grave in Leicester, England, archaeologists report. The ...

Remains of a complex of “high-status” Roman buildings have been uncovered during construction work on a new housing development in northern England. The rare remains were discovered in Scarborough, ...

An illustration of the small dog found at a Roman villa in Oxfordshire, England DigVentures / Earth Trust Archaeologists excavating a Roman villa in England have discovered the remains of a toy-sized ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...