#ancient-rome

#ancient-rome

Before the Roman world, Europe was not joined up. Now the Roman Empire joined up Europe and the Middle East and North Africa into a system that was linked. Big roads went across continents, linking one place with another in a way that was inconceivable before.

The discovery of a skeleton from a Roman settlement in Britain marks the first direct evidence of a gladiator maimed by a lion, revealing new insights into ancient combat.