Dead puppies, potential human sacrifices, and a painted dog penis bone—what was going on in Roman-era Britain?

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The well preserved tiles once decorated a bathhouse during the Roman Empire's ...

BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived to rule over Britain. Although they stayed here for almost 400 years, they still managed to live a Roman lifestyle. They ate Roman ...

Ruins of a temple in Pergamon. Credit: Murat Beşbudak / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a grand Greco-Roman residential complex, dubbed the “Mosaic House,” in ...

For several centuries, immediately after the time of Christ, the people of Britain found themselves if not the slaves then certainly the servants of one of the mightiest empires the world has ever ...

Excavation in Pergamon, Turkey unearthed a “Mosaic House” from the Roman period. Archaeologists also discovered an intact, sealed roof tile, indicating that a king once owned the building.

Once the capital of Roman Britain, this city has a history stretching back over 2,000 years and is home to one of the country’s most impressive castles. That city is Colchester in Essex.