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For more than 2000 years a suburb of monumental Roman buildings lay undiscovered beneath a modern South Wales town, but now archaeologists from the University hope to reveal the secrets of this fascinating ancient site. In spring 2010, staff and students from the School of History, Archaeology and Religion located a complex of buildings outside the Roman fortress at Caerleon.

PA 233/11 Do you — can you — really love a sports team' Should we be learning from so-called bad role models instead of an impossible perfection?

For just more than a year, U.S. Army Col.

A University of Manchester historian is marking the little known 130-year anniversary of the launch of the Detroit Free Press' London edition - the first American newspaper to operate abroad.

Columbia University archaeologist Nan Rothschild walks her dog in Central Park each morning, not far from where William G. Wilson used to live—more than 150 years ago.

London 2012 has put more effort to averting catastrophe than any other Olympic Games in history, according to an independent expert.

Warfare, triggered by political conflict between the fifth century B.C. and the first century A.D.

Researchers at The University of Manchester are to record the history of the region's only established Yemeni community - in a project which starts this summer.

Political films made in Hollywood are almost always reluctant to criticise the establishment, whereas the opposite is usually true of their British counterparts, according to a new book.

A University philosopher claims that J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books tap into 'great' English literary tradition of Dickens, Austen and even Shakespeare's plays.

A University of Manchester historian researching a forgotten band of women, who established birth control clinics in working class communities during the 1920s, says their work should be recognised. Clare Debenham argues the volunteers probably saved the lives of many mothers in the interwar years, during a time of rising maternal mortality.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A rare tropical plant indigenous to the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, is about to blossom in Central Illinois.

A pottery vessel dating back to the 13 th Century has been found by University archaeologists at Cosmeston, shedding new light on medieval life in the area. The aquamanile was found in many fragments at the Manor House site at Cosmeston, near Penarth, and the pieces were spread over a wide area. Aquamanile were designed to hold water with which the most distinguished diners at a table could wash their hands.

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The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans.

Hundreds of players from 21 countries are descending on Edinburgh to battle for the global title in touch rugby.

University Park, Pa. Cancer survivors are less likely to be employed, and they work fewer hours, than similarly aged adults without a history of cancer, even two to six years after diagnosis, according to a study by Penn State researchers.

An international panel of marine scientists has warned that the world's oceans are at risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history. The panel, who have released a preliminary report of their findings, gathered at Somerville College, Oxford University, to consider the latest marine research.

By Melissa Beattie-Moss Research/Penn State Reflecting on his 1879 sojourn in France, Mark Twain - our most quintessentially American writer - quipped, "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

The Bodleian Libraries, with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, have acquired the archive of former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath (1916-2005).

With his provocative ideas about the role played by culture in the evolution of human genetics, UK scientist and writer Matt Ridley will today kick off a week of debate on the 'pursuit of identity' in the second Festival of Ideas, presented by the University of Melbourne.

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Cambridge, MA - In 1987, light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth.

An Oxford University academic is leading a project to study coroners' reports of accidental deaths in Tudor England.

Women have been left defenceless and at the mercy of militia groups in the aftermath of the Iraq war in 2003 according to research from the University of Birmingham.