And that is exactly what this book offers: a hemispheric interpretation of the Spanish conquest, the Age of Revolution in the ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

THE Aryan myth is not an invention of the Nazis. These neo-Teutons merely exploited a widely-held German belief which dates ...

In Britain there were no roads prior to arrival of the Romans ... taking effect shortly after the Roman conquest of Egypt. The Julian calendar split the year for the first time into 365 days, divided ...

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

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

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

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

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

"The implications of our multidisciplinary study are huge," said study lead author and anthropologist professor Tim Thompson.

Archaeologists have confirmed the first physical evidence that a Roman gladiator in Britain died fighting a lion. The discovery involves a skeleton found in 2004 at Driffield Terrace in York ...