A gold pendant, dating to the late fifth or early sixth century, was unearthed in January ... an early Anglo-Saxon artisan in imitation of a Roman solidus coin from the reign of Emperor Honorius ...

Map of human remains from riverine or cave contexts dated to, or likely to date to, the Roman and early medieval periods. Credit: E. Brownlee, A. Klevnäs / Antiquity The 5th century, a time of great ...

New research on an ancient vase discovered in England in 1853 suggests, for the first time, that gladiator battles took place in Roman ... century CE vase discovered in 1853 in the southeastern ...

Recently, a team of archaeologists and researchers studied the remains of a late Roman shipwreck off the coast of Mallorca, one of the Balearic Islands in Spain. The Ses Fontanelles shipwreck, ...

An ancient but perfectly preserved Roman village is resting away in a clear part of the English countryside ... Inhabited from 400BC to the early fourth century AD, the Iron Age discovery is ...

The figuring head is of the Roman god Mercury, a messenger god thought to be the equivalent of the Greek god Hermes. A Roman head of the God Mercury has been found at Smallhythe in Kent (photo ...

Although their lives may have been different, they did have some things in common. In any Roman family life, the head of the household was a man. Although his wife looked after the household ...