the researchers argue that military and societal breakdown in Roman Britain provided an ideal opportunity for peripheral tribes, including the Picts, Scotti and Saxons, to invade the province en masse ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

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

Deva Victrix – is one of the unquestioned ‘great sites’ of Roman Britain. This was a major military centre from its late ...

Blood, sand, and death – for Romans, there was no better entertainment than watching gladiators fight exotic animals in ...

Roman Britain's main produce were crops like spelt ... to invade the province en masse with the intention of raiding rather than conquest. Their finding that the most severe conditions were ...