finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long research, published recently in Roman Urbanism in Italy, rewrites the timeline of the ancient empire’s collapse.

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...

The 3rd century tomb was used to stop the deadly spread of a pandemic The Cyprian Plague killed 5,000 people a day at its peak from 250 to 271 AD The disease was believed to be smallpox ...

This object arrived at Piddington from Gaul or Rome and may have been brought back as a souvenir from the games.A finely detailed late 2nd-3rd century AD Roman clasp knife found in the courtyard ...