The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

11/08/2026

Seeing news reports of the horrific wildfires in so many places made us remember this excavation image from the old GPO site on Newgate St, London. It shows traces of a terrifying fire that destroyed a Roman building and that have been preserved in the archaeology.

https://www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-Details/id/2825

10/08/2026

Considering the *checks IMAGO database* becoming a fisherman on a dolphin option today. It looks refreshing - to our eyes, at least.

The mosaic is from the Yakto complex, at Antioch, Turkey.



https://www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-Details/id/1086

30/07/2026

'Roman Republican silver hoard highlights early links beyond the border'

Archaeologists have uncovered the first definitively documented hoard of Roman Republic silver denarii in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a discovery that is expected to provide new insights into contacts between the Roman Republic and the societies beyond its frontiers. - HeritageDaily - Archaeo...

30/07/2026

Someone Scratched Homer’s Odyssey Into a Brick 1,800 Years Ago

The stuff of legends.

29/07/2026

'A Hairdresser Noticed Something Strange About Roman Statues—and Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Puzzle'

The answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.

29/07/2026

'Transparent desires: Delving into the Roman lapis specularis mines '

https://the-past.com/feature/transparent-desires-delving-into-the-roman-lapis-specularis-mines/?nsl_bypass_cache=df13795f33966c136d5710b1ffc64a95

28/07/2026

'Railway Construction Reveals a Coin Minted by a Roman Officer Who Proclaimed Himself ‘Emperor of the North’ in Britain 1,700 Years Ago'

Archaeologists in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire unearthed a silver denarius bearing the name of Carausius, who ruled the breakaway state of Britannia between 286 and 293

27/07/2026

'Roman villa with rare polychrome mosaic and bathhouse uncovered beneath Devon farmland'

27/07/2026

'Heatwave reveals lost archaeological sites across Wales'

The Royal Commission of Wales said some of these known sites have not been seen clearly in decades.

27/07/2026

For how about a cool octopus with three fishes from Volubilis (Morocco)?