Among the remains unearthed at a Roman cemetery in York ... with Scandinavian-related ancestry already were in Britain before the fifth century,” the study noted, shedding new light on ...

The Roman armies withdrew from Britain early in the fifth century because they were needed back home to defend the crumbling centre of the Empire. Britain was considered a far-flung outpost of ...

The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain in the first century, with the occupation lasting until the fifth century. The stone coffin contains a "gypsum burial"—a funerary practice where the ...

It includes contributions from historians, including Niamh Wycherley and Damien Bracken, and an original score by Natasa Paulberg, performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. A story of resilience, faith, ...

St. Patrick was a 5th-century Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and taken to Ireland as a slave. After several ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...

474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century. While perhaps somewhat ...