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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...