Sifting through the damp soil of the southwestern United Kingdom, archaeologists slowly unearthed an ancient Roman settlement. The ruins seemed “typical” at first — but then “something more unusual” ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first direct evidence of a gladiator mauled by a lion. The skeleton, discovered two ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

Archeologists in England have just uncovered ... that it lies almost precisely halfway between Roman Colchester and St. Albans, two important settlements. “It’s also at a river crossing ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

At the time, Britain was split up into lots of similar ... Boudica raised an army and destroyed the Roman settlements at Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans).

Many tribes in Britain and France at the time of the ... Leicester was certainly an important large settlement before the Roman Conquest, as were a number of large settlements in Lincolnshire ...