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Surveys have revealed a potential large Roman Villa in South Wales - article does say the Pompeii reference is a bit of a joke! But potentially interestiung developments on domestic life in Roman Wales

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

That time of the year again - help yourself to a treat in the library by the catalogue terminals - for eating outside the library!

There is a Roman invasion happening outside our office - or possibly the Museum having Roman day - definitely livens up the day 🙂

We are closed for our annual stockcheck. Thank you to the person who left little origami treats round the library last academic year. As we go up and down the shelves stock checking it brightens the day spotting them. I know that is not why you placed them there but we are enjoying them 🙂

Are you in Sidgwick Site for our Open Day? Pop over the Classics Faculty Library to see our rare books display (12.00-14.00)!

Archaeologists piecing together the wall frescoes from a site in London. There are a lot of pieces - although the picture doesn't look like they have got that far or perhaps just a lot of missing pieces. Some skilled work in the outskirts of the Empire though

Huge archaeological puzzle reveals Roman London frescoes Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa.

The University of Cambridge invite applications for the Kennedy Professorship of Latin to take up appointment on 1 September 2026. The holder is expected to take a leading role in advancing both research and pedagogy in Latin Studies in Cambridge, and in promoting the field of Classics as a whole within the UK and internationally.

The Kennedy Professorship of Latin - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge The Kennedy Professorship of Latin in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge.

The second episode of our series (2nd season) features Daniel Sutton, Research Fellow in Classics and History
at Peterhouse.

We're back with our series, where members of our Faculty tell us about what they've been up to by sharing 3 books they've borrowed from our collection. This year's first episode features Emma Arnold, whose research focuses on the representation of animals in Greek prose literature of the Imperial Period.

Martin Millett, Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge, has just donated to our library this fascinating book about the Roman town of Falerii Novi—Falerii Novi: The Ground-Penetrating Radar survey of the Roman town. The volume results from an innovative large-scale survey deploying Ground-Penetrating Radar, a non-intrusive geophysical method that made possible the mapping of this ancient city which remains for the most part buried deep underground. As explained by Prof. Millett himself, “Most of what we’ve got, apart from in sites like Pompeii, are little bits. You can dig a trench and get little insights, but it’s very difficult to see how they work as a whole. What remote sensing does is enable us to look at very large, complete sites, and to see in detail the structure of those cities without digging a hole" (the quote is from this article from 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/09/archaeologists-discover-amazing-details-of-roman-city)

Parts of Roman Basilica found from early Roman London Forum in excavations for office block. It is planned to incorporate it in the new building and open to the public. Archaeologists think from first Roman London Forum so early.

London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.