Dai Morgan Evans

Dai Morgan Evans (1 March 1944 – 1 March 2017) was a British archaeologist and academic. He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as Rome Wasn't Built in a Day.

Morgan Evans was born in West Kirby and grew up in Chester. and a visiting professor at the University of Chester.

In 2002 he participated in and later presented a Discovery Channel series on the reconstruction of a Roman villa.

The "villa urbana" erected at Wroxeter during the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built in a Day was designed by Morgan Evans and is based on one of the villas excavated on the Wroxeter site. It opened to the public on 19 February 2011, and, by the end of the year, needed maintenance work to repair frost damage

He died on his 73rd birthday, 1 March 2017, after suffering from cancer.

Works Rebuilding the Past: A Roman Villa (1993)