Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

CAMBRIDGE, England — Extreme weather, not just barbarian hordes, may have helped bring down Roman Britain. A brutal three-year drought that ravaged Roman Britain in the 360s CE likely helped trigger a ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study in Climatic Change reveals. Researchers ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that a series of extreme droughts between the years 364 and 366 AD may have been a determining factor in the so-called Great Barbarian ...

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are beginning to challenge our view of the ‘Face’ of Roman Britain. The Imperial Image Database was set up in 2010 with the aim of generating three-dimensional (3D) scans of Roman portraiture ...

A study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research, published in PLOS One, presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human ...

a sub Roman cemetery and three areas of sub Roman settlement have been excavated. Interim results have been published and the project has featured in a number of radio and TV programmes including A ...

The 'Barbarian Conspiracy' of 367 CE was one of the most severe threats to Rome's hold on Britain since the Boudiccan revolt three centuries earlier. Contemporary sources indicate that components of ...