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

Two decades ago, a group of amateur archaeologists unearthed a large metal object from a hillside in the English midlands. The unassuming brown clump was not much to behold, and the archaeologists ...

The Roman Invasion of Britain is a British documentary television series. It was first aired in 2008 on the History channel. The three-part series explores the history of Roman Britain by tracing the ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern ...

Join History Hit as we get up close with the incredible physical remains of Boudica's destruction of Colchester. In 60 AD, ...

After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of a kind once thought to be limited to modern industrial societies. That is ...

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 ...