Channing Tatum leads troops into Roman Britain in The Eagle, 2011 - Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo Legion, an exhibition opening at the British Museum next month, will explore the life of the ...

The viral nature of the term “Roman Empire” makes it easy to forget the trend started because ancient Rome had one of the most unforgettable armies in history. A new show at the British Museum is ...

Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC, but what has archaeology revealed about the ...

A trove of remarkable artefacts, including part of a 2,000-year-old hand-decorated incense bowl and a Roman coin pre-dating ...

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Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard, this vast ...

Uncover the only evidence of crucifixion in Roman-occupied Britain. Uncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel bone, suggesting the person was ...

The Emperor Claudius, whose mother once described him as ‘not so much unfinished by nature, as barely begun’, ordered the invasion of Britain in AD43. A legion crossed the Cotswolds unopposed and came ...