Although the Classical world that preceded the Dark Ages was aware of basic engineering techniques and energy sources, it depended on slave labor, says Hudson. “Among the Roman [aristocracy ...

The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (5th–10th centuries) in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman ...

Wales and Scotland were born out of the chaos of the Dark Ages. In 400 AD, when Roman power collapsed in Britain, we were a province inhabited by Celtic peoples speaking a mixture of early Welsh ...

The early Anglo-Saxon creator was imitating a Roman coin called a solidus ... in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early medieval by historians.

Treasure hunters who unearthed a rare Roman-era hoard described how they ... Shropshire coroner John Ellery was told the haul - buried in the Dark Ages in about 460 to 500AD - constituted a ...