Begins by using a map to show the first Roman road to be built in Britain: Watling Street, which ran between Richborough and Chester. It then shows Ermine Street, which ran from London to York ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a ...

A Romano-British man and a Celt discuss Julius Caesar and the Roman army’s first attempt to invade Britain. They give different information and details about what happened. An animated map shows ...

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 ...

Britannia is the national symbol of the UK and can be seen across the country on multiple statues or old pound sterling coins ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study in Climatic Change reveals. Researchers ...

In the spring of 367 CE, Roman Britain was besieged from all sides and by all kinds of forces. Harvests shriveled. Soldiers and the security they provided vanished. Communities were starving.

Archaeologists have launched a detailed exploration of a newly discovered Roman town south of Great Staunton, England. The ...