A group of inmates has unearthed Roman pottery in a Wiltshire prison as part of an archaeology project. Inmates at HMP Erlestoke have been working on the scheme run by Wessex Archaeology overseen ...

Twelve skeletons have been found in a large, 2,000-year-old tomb directly in front of the Khazneh (“Treasury”) in the city of ...

Learn from qualified pottery masters, gain friends and focus with these London ceramics classes, where crafty tableware and ...

This edition includes a new chapter on art throughout the Roman empire, new illustrations, updated bibliography and glossary. ‘Well-planned, written in a lively manner … observations are un-hackneyed ...

Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them. Neither were they taught how to write, so they ...

Its ancient Roman heritage has given it a rare touch in British history. The city, founded in 50 AD, was known as Verulamium, ...

Weapons, coins, and goods like glass and pottery show up as far away as Norway and modern-day Russia. Roman foreign policy wasn’t all carrots. Revenge was also a favorite tactic, and the legions ...

Venta Icenorum had running water, baths, a town hall and a forum, and was enclosed inside walls in the 3rd Century Further digs are to be carried out on a Roman site in the grounds of a hotel ...

One of the most famous facades in all the world has been concealing a deep secret. Underneath the iconic and intricately ...

Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

The chorus of this song makes the link between the many deities of Roman mythology and the planets in the night sky – Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury, etc. Mercury’s ‘Mystery Tour’ takes ...