With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

Its congregation met up every Sunday in the village hall as part of the 'Atlantic Cluster' of churches on this stretch of the ...

Prominent during Rome's occupation of Judea were a people known as the Nabataeans. They are famous to much of the world for their creation of Petra (the Greek word for 'rock'), a unique city which was ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

The traditional 'founding' of Rome by the Latins was probably a formal melding together of various small villages in the area, a process which has also been observed in the late Villanovan in Italy, ...

Ubaid houses were characterised by a distinctive plan. The main part of the house consisted of a central cruciform area with an entrance hall, staircase and living rooms on either side. This house ...

The so-called West Indo-European tribes arrived at the eastern edge of Central Europe around 2500 BC. Their northern group became the proto-Celts of the Urnfield culture while the southern group ...

Area of Anatolia have been occupied almost since the initial lasting steps out of Africa by modern humans. It was the birthplace of the great farming revolution which signalled a massive change in ...

The sultanate or empire was a Muslim state which was formed on the Deccan plateau in India - one of the great medieval kingdoms of the sub-continent. Areas of the state had formerly been part of the ...

France experienced uncertain beginnings when it came to settling the New World. Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic to visit the St Lawrence River in the ...