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

Faced with an economic downturn in the second half of the fourth century and various barbarian raids and more serious incursions, Roman Britain exhibited a marked decline in fortunes. Various internal ...

Towards the end of the thirteenth century BC, the international system in the Near East began to break down. Communications between the many smaller states, especially in Syria and Canaan, and the ...

Apum developed as one of the more early larger states in Syria and northern Mesopotamia which encompassed more than one city and operated more on the basis of a small kingdom. Apum's capital was at ...

The Roman city of Lindum Colonia was founded in the eastern section of the tribal territory of the Corieltavi. Popularly known as Lindum (modern Lincoln), this seems to have produced Caer Lind Colun ...

The Roman administration of Britannia officially came to an end in AD 410, although in practise the Romano-British had governed themselves for some time and had expelled that administration in 409 ...

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.

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 ...

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).

A date of around 3000 BC is used as the probable point at which the core Indo-European-speakers began to separate into definite proto languages which were not intelligible to each other. This excepts ...