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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3092493, member: 76194"]Oh please, we have known that Roman Britain was multicultural for quite some time. Here is one such example found long ago, proof that this article presents absolutely nothing new under the sun. [ATTACH=full]780685[/ATTACH] It's a gravestone for Regina, a  Britanian freedwoman, from her husband Barates of Palmyra (ie. a middle eastern man). Here they both were in Britania, as husband and wife, despite one of them being born thousands of miles away. Both Romans, using Roman symbols and language (though he also inscribes the message in his native tongue below). Like I said, diversity was a different concept for the Romans than it is for people in the 21st Century. To them diversity was bringing people of different colors and ethnicities and religions under one law, one Roman culture and Roman values and ideals....something not considered very PC today. Here is more proof this article presents nothing new....inscriptions of tombs of Roman soldiers in Britannia provide proof they came from all over Europe and even the Middle East and North Africa. All fighting for Rome, using Latin and Roman symbols, and quite as Roman as the Romans born in Rome itself.  Many settled in Britannia, but even those that didn't probably left offsprings there. [ATTACH=full]780700[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]