With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the ...

The Iberian peninsula prior to the Carthaginian invasion and partial conquest was a melange of different tribal influences. The Turdetanian region in the south was dominated by a Palaeo-Hispanic ...

A Bronze Age culture emerged in Central Asia around 2200-1700 BC, at the same time as city states were beginning to flourish in Anatolia (such as those of the Hatti). This was known as the ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

This map of Britain concentrates on British territories and kingdoms which were established during the fourth and fifth centuries, as the Saxons and Angles began their settlement of the east coast. It ...

Liaka Kusuluka seems to have been the first of the western satraps (founding what is sometimes referred to as the Kshaharata dynasty). This suggests that the region around Chuksa had only recently ...

The chain of islands that make up modern Japan stretch from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Much of Japan faces what is now North Korea and South Korea, while the ...

The Roman administration of Britannia officially came to an end in AD 410, although in practise the Romano-British had governed themselves for some time and had expelled that administration in 409 ...

Scholars first noticed similarities between Sanskrit and Latin and Greek in the sixteenth century, as Europeans came into contact with India. But it was the Hanoverian 'British Asiatic Society' in ...

The Picts occupied Britain north of the Antonine Wall, although in actual fact there never was a race or tribe called the Picts. No Picts existed as any sort of identifiably separate people The name ...