Search results for roman britain

Archaeology Jan 31, 2024

Researchers use ancient DNA to map migration during the Roman Empire

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now, an international ...

Archaeology Jan 12, 2024

Researchers study unusual late-Roman metalware hoard discovered in the British Isles

Researchers report on one of the most unusual late-Roman metalware ever discovered in the British Isles. Although the Knaresborough Hoard was discovered about 1864, there has never been any detailed analysis of the items ...

Archaeology Jan 11, 2024

Archeologists map lost cities in Ecuadorian Amazon, settlements that lasted 1,000 years

Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago.

Archaeology Dec 20, 2023

Research reveals man born thousands of miles to the east traveled to Cambridgeshire 2,000 years ago

Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Durham University, and MOLA Headland Infrastructure have discovered that a man who lived between AD 126–228 during the Roman period did not originally come from a rural farmstead ...

Plants & Animals Oct 4, 2023

Sycamore Gap: What the long life of a single tree can tell us about centuries of change

Only a few individual trees could be rightly labeled as world famous, but the tree at Sycamore Gap along Hadrian's Wall in northern England was one of them. No wonder its recent felling provoked public outcry and collective ...

Social Sciences Oct 2, 2023

How often do you think about the Roman empire? TikTok trend exposes the way we gender history

How often do you think about the Roman empire? This question, posed to men by their partners on social media app TikTok, has led to a storm of viral videos. Women are amused to discover the answer is often "every day," or ...

Plants & Animals Sep 19, 2023

The secret world of rhododendrons: A plant more ancient than the Himalayas

If you have a rhododendron in your garden or pass one by on an afternoon walk perhaps you think of it as just a colorful and pretty shrub. You may have heard that they come from the Himalayas, and that they are invasive plants ...

Archaeology Aug 7, 2023

Roman road network spanning the south west UK identified in new research

A Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall and connected significant settlements with military forts across the two counties as well as wider Britannia has been discovered for the first time.

Plants & Animals Aug 6, 2023

Scots train ancient dog breed to deter eagle attacks

Dotted among a small flock of sheep in a field in the Scottish Highlands, Luigi and Peaches, two young working dogs with thick white coats, are busy being trained to keep watch on the skies above.

Ecology Aug 2, 2023

Paleontologists study dinosaur fossils to confirm that Chukotka, Russia, had a milder climate in ancient times

Scientists from St Petersburg University as part of a research team have studied bones of hadrosaurid dinosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, found in Chukotka. They were able to confirm that 66 million years ago the climate ...

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