New investigations have shown that rather than simply being a provincial Roman town, Caistor may represent the development of a major settlement from the Iron Age until the 9th century AD. Crucially, ...
Ancient, fascinating Solin is an unassuming Croatian town that was actually once among the Roman Empire's largest.
Archaeologists from England’s University of Cambridge and Belgium’s Ghent University have mapped an entire ancient Roman town without lifting a shovel. The archaeologists were able to fully map the ...
A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...
Aerial shot of the Blackgrounds Roman archaeological site uncovered near a small village in South Northamptonshire, UK. HS2 / SWNS Over the past twelve months, a team of around 80 archaeologists from ...
The remains of a vast Roman trading settlement have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working along a future high-speed railway route in England. Hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry, pottery ...
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Archaeologists surveying the planned route of a high-speed railway between London and Birmingham in the UK unearthed the remains of a Roman trading town in what is now South Northamptonshire. At its ...
Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire. According to a published study in Roman Urbanism in Italy, this central Italian town thrived well beyond ...
Wed, March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM UTC “We started with a site so unpromising that no one had ever tried to excavate it,” Alessandro Launaro, the study’s author and Interamna Lirenas Project lead at the ...