A suave bronze head of Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, dominates the start of this new exhibition at the British Museum. Take a moment to savour its glaring inlaid eyes, if imperial-grade art is your ...
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 ...
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We found the lost 9th Legion's ancient Roman camp
Join historian Tristan Hughes as he teams up with archaeologist Simon Elliot on the hunt for the lost 9th legion. Together ...
For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...
At its peak, the Roman empire numbered some 60 million inhabitants and controlled everything "from Mesopotamia all the way to Hadrian's Wall", said Nick Clark in the Evening Standard. Stationed across ...
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