Said to be one of the most attractive late 1800s churches in Cornwall, it is very un-Cornish in appearance. Under its steep ...

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 ...

The ancient region of the Indus lay on the eastern side of the Hindu Kush mountains. Although rarely defined with any specific borders, it generally followed the River Indus and its tributaries from ...

The Meonware were a colony of Jutes who probably embarked from Kent and came round Southampton Water and up the Solent to settle there shortly after AD 450. Their colony, which was also known as Ytena ...

Late medieval Ethiopia in the form of the kingdom of Axum was not the Ethiopia of today, with its fixed borders and relatively large volume of territory. Imperial Ethiopia was much smaller and its ...

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 nomads of Central Asia were the masters of horsemanship and were deadly shots with their composite bow. They were virtually born as fighting men, and almost every element of their lives involved ...

This vast map covers just about all possible tribes which were documented in the first centuries BC and AD, mostly by the Romans and Greeks. The focus is especially on 52 BC, although not exclusively.

The peopling of the Americas remains a complicated subject, and one which is open to a great deal of debate. While earlier migrations are especially scrutinised, it is generally accepted that there ...

Aryana Vaejah (or Airyanem Vaejah) translates as the 'expanse of the Aryans'. It was part of the core homeland of the early Indo-Iranians in the late second millennium and early first millennium BC.

The ancient province of Carmania in Central Asia lay largely within the modern province of Kerman in central-eastern Iran. Prior to its late sixth century BC domination by the Achaemenid Persians, ...