The UK is home to many ancient sites, but few are as fascinating as the abandoned Roman gold mines hidden in the Welsh ...

Coal mining has been an essential part of British industry since Roman times. This collection looks at the hardship of the day-to-day toil beneath the earth as well as the effects of industrial ...

including most of what is now Great Britain. Based on ice-core records from the Arctic, atmospheric levels of toxic lead spiked between 100 BCE and 200 CE as the Roman Empire began mining and ...