Evidence for what took place in the region that forms the modern (and ancient) county of Surrey is thin on the ground. A certain amount can be inferred, and a certain amount understood through ...

Situated around modern Durham and Northumberland, the kingdom was based on one called Bernaccia which seems to have been founded during the break-up of Romano-British administration in fifth century ...

St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at 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 was an ancient Near East region on the Black Sea coast in northern Anatolia. It was relatively unimportant in its level of participation in historical events. Much of the country is rugged and ...

Aryana Vaejah (or Airyanem Vaejah) translates as the 'expanse of the Aryans'. It was part of the core homeland of the early Indo-Iranians in the late second millennium and early first millennium BC.

Sub-Roman Britannia underwent rapid change in the course of fifty years between AD 550-600. At the start of this period, the Angle and Saxon kingdoms on the east and south coasts were firmly ...

The area which formed Sumer started at the Persian Gulf and reached north to the 'neck' of Mesopotamia where the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates meander much closer to each other. To the east ...

The name Aria is a variation of Arya, usually shown as Aria (Latin), Areia (close to the Greek spelling), Haraiva (Persian), or Haraeuua (Avestan). The Areioi (or Arii) tribe mentioned by Herodotus ...

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 ...

This vast map covers just about all possible tribes which were documented in the first centuries BC and AD, mostly by the Romans and Greeks. The focus is especially on 52 BC, although not exclusively.

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 ...