According to a new study published in Nature, Scandinavian genes were present on the British Isles several centuries earlier ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient DNA from a Roman gladiator, revealing Scandinavian ancestry and early European migrations.

BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...

In the shadows of York’s storied walls, an ancient Roman skeleton has revealed an astonishing secret: Scandinavian heritage ...

Scientists reveal Scandinavian roots of Roman gladiators in Britain through DNA analysis Ancient European migrations traced ...

At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile place with little to do. Like soldiers ever since, they spent much of ...

A discovery in York, England, has shed light on a previously unknown chapter of human migration. Researchers identified a ...

The tomb and its personal artifacts are some of the first true pieces of evidence of an early Roman presence in the area. The ...

For more than 600 years, the chainmail worn by Roman soldiers was essential gear across the entire empire, no matter where a soldier was stationed. The further the frontier stretched from supply ...

and probably belonged to a Roman soldier who lost his life in battle. Few examples of this type of shield have survived over the millennia, even though it is well known from depictions in art.