Roman genomes from skeletons from various cities in England differ in their finds. Many graves are rich in goods the men there had been buried with honor and that fact combined with the marks of combat injuries they still bore on their skeletons suggested these men had been fierce and celebrated soldiers in life. Other graves are different. The Britons of Roman Driffield Terrace, for example, were buried without their head, posing a mystery as to why.

Using their genomic information combined with those archaeological findings, we can begin to piece together their lives answering the questions we had about them. Where did they come from? What did they look like? Are they the ancestors of the modern English nation? Could you be one of their descendants? Did one of your ancestors stand shoulder to shoulder in a feared Roman phalanx fighting off Boudica, the brave warrior queen of the ancient British Iceni? Or were they renowned Roman engineers bringing the aqueduct and Roman roads to Britain and perhaps even laying a stone to form Hadrian’s Wall? The growing availability of ancient Roman DNA allows the identification of your exact Roman ancestors throughout history and across the Old World.

This test includes 15 Roman Britons, most of whom lived between 50 and 350 AD when Rome reached its greatest territorial expansion under the Julio-Claudian and Nerva–Antonine dynasties. The test provides a detailed historical, archeological, and paleogenetic background of the Briton Romans. It describes their relationships with other ancient Britons and their cultic practices. A detailed profile is available for every Roman. Find out now how related you are to Roman Britons.