Researchers argue that the tenth-century coins provide new evidence of a bustling English community located next to the Vatican that was permitted to use its own currency
Medieval? Ancient Romans traveled to Britain and established a pretty permanent colony there that didn’t just disappear once the empire ended.
edit: meaning that travel continued in both directions and that some of the “Brits” that traveled to Rome might well have been descendants of Romans that settled in Britain long ago.
It might be a nice find but nothing groundbreaking unless I’m missing something here.
Still, an interesting story about immigration already having existed in the 10th century.
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Medieval? Ancient Romans traveled to Britain and established a pretty permanent colony there that didn’t just disappear once the empire ended.
edit: meaning that travel continued in both directions and that some of the “Brits” that traveled to Rome might well have been descendants of Romans that settled in Britain long ago.
It might be a nice find but nothing groundbreaking unless I’m missing something here.
Still, an interesting story about immigration already having existed in the 10th century.
uhm, you may have misunderstood. this is about English coins in Rome, not the other way round
My comment could’ve been misinterpreted that way. I’ve edited it now.