Over 2,000 years ... did for fun. And thanks to a book written all those years ago by the famous Roman commander, Julius Caesar, we also know one reason why the Romans wanted to come to Britain ...

Caesar's invasions failed to establish permanent Roman control over Britain. It wasn't until after another Roman invasion, launched in A.D. 43 by Emperor Claudius, that the Roman Empire managed to ...

About 1,700 years ago ... which were also occupied by the Roman Empire, but the burials are most common from the third and fourth centuries in Britain, with York and the surrounding region ...

Humans have been marking time on calendars for at least 10,000 years, but the methods they used varied from the start. The Mesolithic people of Britain ... so did their calendar. The Romans ...

When a newly constructed gateway and tower, built using the evidence of 2,000-year ... Roman site: the “port” of Richborough in Kent, an island gateway to the Roman invasion of Britain ...

The decorative markings were made by Late Mesolithic people 2,000 years before Stonehenge was built and 4,500 years before the Romans came to Britain ... markings that did not appear to be ...

By Jenny Gross LONDON — British archaeologists have uncovered an ancient coffin in a 1,600-year-old cemetery in ... that could shed light on the end of Roman Britain and the establishment ...