Roman Empire

Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?

Diana Webb looks at the miracles and saints populating the basilica of the San Frediano in Lucca.

Keith Nurse investigates new archaeological findings linking wine producing to Roman England.

Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

Robert Garland draws on both mythology and accounts of everyday life to probe attitudes to physical misfortune in the classical era.

Keith Nurse explores the excavations of recently-discovered Roman remains

Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.

End or beginning? Catherine Hills discusses how recent archaeology is filling in the gaps in our knowledge of 5th-and 6th-century Britain, fuelling the debate about just how important marauding invaders were to the changes that followed the legion's departure.