Many of today’s visitors who flock to Bath in the west of England do so because of Jane Austen. The great novelist (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, etc.) lived in Bath (although she never ...
The Cope Collection of Roman and British coins includes rare and significant examples that bear witness to some of the most significant moments in British history. In May, and again in October, the ...
“Beauty is pain” was a maxim the Ancient Romans lived by. During near daily trips to communal bathhouses, Romans paid to have their skin scraped, ears scooped out, and body hair plucked. The ...
From stone carvings to iron helmets, a new blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum, "Legion: Life in the Roman Army," explores what it was like to be a soldier serving in one of the most elite ...
A meme promoting the British Museum's new Roman Empire exhibition prompted an angry backlash - Peter Nicholls/Getty Images The British Museum has been accused of sexism after suggesting single women ...
Metal detectorists and archaeologists unearthed over 400 of ancient British, Roman and African coins linked to a military conquest, photos show. Photo from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the ...
In October 2023, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden unveiled a hoard of ancient coins unearthed in Bunnik, ...
SIB MONTAGU SHARPE has made considerable additions to this new edition of his account of the archaeology of Middlesex in the period extending from just before the Roman conquest down to Domesday, ...
In the years after the Emperor Nero was declared an enemy of the Roman state and committed suicide to avoid arrest by his own soldiers, several imposters exploited rumors that he was still living in ...