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Rome conquered most of Britain, but Ireland offered little that justified the cost of invasion. The island had no major cities, no obvious mineral wealth, and wasn’t producing large-scale threats to ...

A lost hammer led to a buried Roman fortune that is still rewriting the final chapter of imperial Britain.

Erin Somers’ adultery novel is targeted at downwardly mobile, media-adjacent millennials ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...