Said to be one of the most attractive late 1800s churches in Cornwall, it is very un-Cornish in appearance. Under its steep ...

The situation remained largely the same until the final fall of the Hephthalites in AD 565, with puppet governors being set up in regions such as Margiana, and several small Xionite principalities ...

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.

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).

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 ancient region of Dardania in the form which was known to the Greeks appears to have been a creation of Indo-European arrivals into Anatolia during the mid-third millennium BC. These were the ...

Groups of Saxons migrated across the North Sea throughout the second half of the fifth century, perhaps coming in successive waves. Moving westwards up the Thames along with groups which were already ...

France experienced uncertain beginnings when it came to settling the New World. Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic to visit the St Lawrence River in the ...