The former St Andrew Marsh Green was (and still is) located on the south side of the main lane in this small village, with ...

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 ...

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).

Umma (modern Tell Jokha / Djoha) was a Sumerian city state which was situated in central southern Mesopotamia. Its patron saint was Shara. The city was relatively minor for much of its existence.

The Hellenic empire was created by Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, in his conquests between 334-326 BC. Essentially it encompassed all of the territory which was now under Macedonian control, ...

The cultural capital of the Mississippian was Cahokia, near what is now Collinsville, Illinois. This was the largest pre-Columbian settlement to the north of the Aztec empire. The mound-building ...

One of those tribes was known as the Drangians, from which the region gained its name. They have also been referred to as the Sarangians, Drangae, and Zarangae, and are claimed as being subjects of ...

The Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).

Faced with an economic downturn in the second half of the fourth century and various barbarian raids and more serious incursions, Roman Britain exhibited a marked decline in fortunes. Various internal ...

Rao Siyaji visits Marwar on pilgrimage and stops at a town called Pali. The local Brahmin community asks him to settle there, become their chief, and protect them from raiders. Fort Mehran Ghar is ...

The Semitic-speaking Aramaeans, former pastoralists in northern Syria and northern Mesopotamia, occupied various areas in ancient Syria in the eleventh and tenth centuries BC. This only became ...