Iron stylus uncovered at Bloomberg building site in City of London is ‘one of the most human finds’, say archaeologists It sounds just like the kind of joke that is ubiquitous in today’s cheap-and-cheerful souvenir industry: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this lousy pen.” But the tongue-in-cheek inscription recently deciphered […]
The disastrous battle of Adrianople shows that treating asylum seekers badly cannot end well Archaeologists working at the Roman legionary fortress at Hadrian’s Wall have reportedly uncovered what they suspect is a refugee camp established for friendly tribespeople from north of the wall who were fleeing serious unrest in the early third century AD. These new […]
