The breakthrough was achieved using an ancient recipe analysed from a fragment of the Roman original.

An archaeologist says he has found the mostly likely reason behind Roman cultivation trenches.

New research suggests that the ancient coffin was repurposed in the 10th or 11th century to hold the remains of an abbot who ...

Forensic analysis and carbon dating have finally identified the bones inside Westminster Abbey's Roman sarcophagus.

A new archaeological study has determined that a 4th century, Roman-era coffin buried at Westminster Abbey was curiously ...

Five trenches dug into a remote Welsh hillside may have just turned a medieval myth into history.

A sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with Roman and Anglo-Saxon decorations baffled archaeologists, but now a 150-year-old ...

Archaeologists believe it may be the remains of one of two high-ranking medieval monks who died around 1,000 years ago. The ...

A fourth-century limestone coffin carved for a Roman named Valerius Amandinus holds the bones of a man who died around a ...

A new study in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association argues that a skeleton found inside a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey may belong to Ælfwig, an abbot who died around 1020.

The identity of a mysterious skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus in the grounds of Westminster Abbey more than 150 years ...

Pottery, coins, and buried defenses point to a Roman fort in west Wales, offering a possible setting for Emperor Magnus ...