Under its Roman name Camulodunum, Colchester was granted colonia status in AD 49, becoming the earliest recorded capital in Roman Britain.
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Life inside Roman Britain, how cities, roads, and citizenship reshaped the island after conquest
After decades of war, Britain entered a quieter age marked by cities, roads, villas, and a growing Roman identity embraced by much of the population. This chapter explores how Roman rule transformed ...
A careful, minimal retrofit by Levitate transforms Dannatt's 1959 Vaughan College into a modern museum while preserving its mild brutalist character. Owen Hatherley reports ...
New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...
Kayaking around the sheltered waters of Bahrain Bay is a little like being a brightly coloured fish in an open-air aquarium.
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Today in History for Jan. 20: ...
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Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory
Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large ...
The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, setting off research into the science behind them. He expected to die without ...
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem condemned Christian Zionism as a threat to the Christian presence in ...
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