ZME Science reports that a metal detectorist recovered a four-inch copper-alloy carriage ornament in Essex. The figure, now ...
The decoration was uncovered in 2024 by a metal detectorist scanning the dirt near Harlow, not far from London. It’s a ...
A historian has uncovered prehistoric, Roman and civil war artefacts beneath British farmland, revealing how everyday fields ...
When Don McCullin stepped into Crowthers Reclamation Yard in Isleworth in 1963, surrounded by broken Roman busts and ...
The figure, which was probably one part of a pair, was likely meant to symbolize the strength and power of the Roman Empire. The panther probably represented Bacchus, the Roman name for the Greek god ...
Airports, road signs, animal warnings … Margaret Calvert revolutionised how Britain looked and her brilliantly clear designs are still used today. We meet the font legend and Porsche lover ...
A large part of the interior of 120 or more boxes of plaster fragments have been enticed home into readable pictures at In Roman Southwark. The task begins where most archaeology leaves it, not where ...
Andrew Blackall discusses the history of Boudica and where her final resting place might be many centuries after her death in 61AD ...
A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.
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 ...