An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle, gossip and relax. They were viewed as fundamental to Roman civilization and an obvious ...

The University of Leicester is to honour a pioneering female archaeologist by naming one of its academic buildings after her.

When the aqueduct must flow higher than about five feet, Roman engineers should use an arcade rather than a wall. The arched arcades require less material than walls and don't interfere with the ...

Archaeologists have made what is thought to be the first discovery of a prized purple pigment in Britain in a Roman ...

MUM: We know what baths look like now but back then ... A recreation of the gates and perimeter wall of a Roman fort at South Shields, north east England. When the Romans marched into lands ...

She also led excavations at Leicester's Jewry Wall Roman baths complex in the 1930s. The university said the home of its schools of Archaeology and Ancient History and Museum Studies would be ...