romans

January 14, 2012 0 Comments

Rare Roman Villa discovered near Peterborough England

Now Oxford Archaeology East and archaeologists from Peterborough City Council have announced the discovery of a 2nd Century Roman Villa and farm complex discovered at Walton near Peterborough.

Aquae Sulis under threat from proposed drilling

The process of extracting natural gas from underground sources could pose a real threat to the World Heritage Site of the famous Roman Baths of Aquae Sulis in Bath, England. Concerns were raised by Bath and North-East Somerset council, who fear that test drilling pockets of shale gas using a method known as “fracking” could harm the spings.

Archaeology

September 14, 2011 2 Comments

Part 3 : A lost Roman legion….in China?

I welcome you back to this journey where we attempt to follow in the footsteps of the armoured shadows of the Roman empire. Defeated men yet still potent in their violent majesty, taken at the battle of Carrahe in 53BC and marched by exotic dragons dripping with silk into the soft and dangerous mirage. And as with so many over the millennia, their souls destined to be lost amongst those of the remembered. But as we have seen before, maybe this isn’t quite true.