With trembling hands, the 63-year-old man stooped down to retrieve what turned out to be his last masterpiece: an ancient vase weighing 350 pounds, filled with 52,000 Roman coins dating back to the 3rd century AD, discovered in a nearby field
For 1,800 years the story of the ‘lost British emperor’ who defied ancient Rome has been merely a footnote in history books. Carausius’s audacious seizure...