A cauldron, chariot parts, ornate jewelry: Precious objects found in the Melsonby Hoard are shedding new light into the rituals of Iron Age Britain.

The 404 coins discovered in a muddy field near Bunnik, a village in the Netherlands, in 2023 and 2024 National Museum of Antiquities As they swept over the muddy fields of Bunnik, a village in the ...

"If you can't beat them, imitate them." Did that happen with the Roman conquest of Britain? Excavations in the summer of 2013 in London yielded thousands of exciting artifacts that reveal new ...

A gold Roman coin celebrating the conquest of Britain by Emperor Claudius — a coin first discovered in 1895 in the ashes of Pompeii — has sold at auction for nearly $22,400. The gold coin that marks ...

New research is revealing the remarkable story of one of Britain’s most enigmatic archaeological finds - a Roman gladiator helmet, discovered buried in a field in East Anglia. The artefact, which will ...

A Lord has joined calls to reject “harebrained” plans for a solar farm next door to a site described as the birthplace of ...

INVADING A country is rarely easy, as Vladimir Putin discovered this week. Most efforts to conquer Britain, for instance, have been dismal flops. The most recent one, in 1940, never even got out of ...

The east gate ‘war cemetery’ in 1937: general view from the south. Credit: Society of Antiquaries of London and Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society A new archaeological investigation ...

Two of the skeletons excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s, dating from the 1st century AD. Both these individuals exhibit bladed weapon injuries, whilst one has a spear head lodged in his spine, ...

The horror and drama of Roman gladiatorial combat still fascinates the public - and has done so for centuries. That fascination is symbolized by books, films - and paintings, such as this one by the ...