Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry ...
Population genomics has exposed a history far more complex, dynamic and intertwined than we might wish to imagine. Even in a ...
ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...
New discoveries of Roman villas in Wiltshire and Rutland are reshaping our understanding of post-Roman Britain. These sites ...
New dating shows a Roman villa mosaic was laid in the 5th century, reshaping post-Roman Britain. Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the ...
Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia — the first time Giardia has been identified in ...
A remarkable discovery in York, England, challenged historical assumptions about Roman Britain. Analysis of a noblewoman's ...
Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the end of a lavish Roman lifestyle in Britain. But new radiocarbon dating of a finely crafted ...