"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, but also played a role in the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a catastrophic ...

Roman Britain's main produce were crops like spelt ... to invade the province en masse with the intention of raiding rather than conquest. Their finding that the most severe conditions were ...

The analysis, based on the growth rings of oaks from southern Britain, made it possible to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels at the time and connect them to Roman accounts of food ...

The term “Celtic” often serves as an umbrella term for the “barbarian” people of Europe living outside the Greco-Roman ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

At various times in its long history, the region has either been coveted, conquered or controlled by the Greeks, the Roman ...

Julius Caesar's two invasions of Britain took place in 55 and 54 BC. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it evolved into Verulamium, one of the largest towns in Roman Britain.