Britain's descent into anarchy was disastrous ... More information: Charles Norman et al, Droughts and conflicts during the late Roman period, Climatic Change (2025). DOI: 10.1007 ...

Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups invaded Roman Britain, with the Picts atta ...

Many tribes in Britain and France at the time of the Roman Conquest shared similar names ... (Cymbeline), but after his death in the late 30's AD, his kingdom was beset by rivalries between ...

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 ...

What kind of contact and exchange was known to exist between the Roman world and the island of Ireland in the pre-Patrician period? This necessarily short contribution will try to answer this and the ...

A skeleton from Roman-era England has bite marks consistent with those of a large cat like a lion, suggesting that this individual may have died as part of a gladiator show or execution, according to ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the individual was likely bitten by a lion.

Roman Britain’s main produce were crops like spelt ... but this made them vulnerable to late spring and early summer moisture deficits, and early summer droughts could lead to total crop failure.