When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European ...

Famed as a drooling idiot all his life, Claudius’ apparent shortcomings ... It would see him claim the conquest of Britain, increase the strength of the Roman army, fall foul of the senate ...

The presence of materials imported from the Mediterranean, and a type of continental European wagon new to Britain ... the time of the Roman conquest under Emperor Claudius.

The presence of materials imported from the Mediterranean, and a type of continental European wagon new to Britain, challenges the idea ... century BC – around the time of the Roman conquest under ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Scientists link the 367 CE Barbarian invasion of Roman Britain to severe drought, revealing climate’s hidden role in the ...

to invade the province en masse with the intention of raiding rather than conquest. Their finding that the most severe conditions were restricted to southern Britain undermines the idea that ...

The analysis, based on the growth rings of oaks from southern Britain, made it possible to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels at the time and connect them to Roman accounts of food ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

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