“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern ...

Despite the fact that historians have widely accepted the fact that Julius Caesar led a Roman invasion of Britain in the year 55 B.C., any physical evidence of that invasion has been completely ...

READING, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Antiquity, Rebecca Pitt of the University of Reading examined the bones of women and infants who lived in south and central England before the ...

Leaving a major political body is nothing new for mainland Britain. In 409AD, more than 350 years after the Roman conquest of 43AD, the island slipped from the control of the Roman Empire. Much like ...

The Romans came to Britain and conquered it, ruling the island for centuries. But why did they come and how did they succeed in the face of the inhabitants’ ferocious resistance? Using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction drawing of Hadrian’s wall, a rebellion within its garrison allowed the Picts to invade northern Britain during ...

'Incredibly rare' Roman armour to go on display after experts complete ‘ancient jigsaw puzzle’ A new study reveals that the Roman occupation of Britain nearly 2,000 years ago led to significant ...

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age ...