"It also has a large temple to the deified emperor Claudius, who's now died" that's news to me. RIP big man
@OrganDanai2 жыл бұрын
Derek Jacobi was a fine man, indeed. 😁
@anwlc852 жыл бұрын
@@OrganDanai esrrteserrt a y rretare
@eviljoel2 жыл бұрын
Why are you so boring, Kenneth?
@StarCrusher.2 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know he was sick
@jimjiminyjaroo3002 жыл бұрын
Shit, who knew? Sad news.😢
@andytopley3142 жыл бұрын
I doubt that I am the only person who could happily have watched 2 hours on this subject when it is so well presented. One of the best history programmes out there, please do more.
@purpurina56632 жыл бұрын
The amphori, vases and cups are beautiful. The proportions are just perfect.
@chrislightfoot12342 жыл бұрын
The plural of amphora is amphorae. You failed the most basic Latin test.
@purpurina56632 жыл бұрын
@@chrislightfoot1234 thanks for the correction. The second part was unnecessary.
@arionas112 жыл бұрын
@@chrislightfoot1234 or amphoras. Both amphorae or amphoras are correct. The word is of greek origin not latin, though it came via latin
@excession30762 жыл бұрын
If anyone is interested, Welwyn Garden City (where the amphora came from) has an amazing Roman site that many people miss. It was excavated for years by an amature(?) husband and wife team and is extensive. When they built the A1(M), literally over the top, they covered the site under a large tunnel/arch. I haven't been for a few years so I may have got some details wrong (sorry about that) but it's really well worth a visit. It's actually in Welwyn old town, just up the road to the newer Garden City, and the entrance is at the back of the small carpark. Because it's kind of underground, it has the same atmosphere as the Roman Baths in Bath. You go down a tunnel and then find yourself within the Roman Villa, very evocative. And very unexpected. Perhaps because it's council owned, not NT or EH, it just doesn't seem to be that well known.
@stevewiles71322 жыл бұрын
Claudius was in Britain so long, when offered wine he replied, " No, I'll have half a mild and a packet of crisps."
@raymondjmetcalfe29272 жыл бұрын
Ha a goon show fan
@sagidasyed63142 жыл бұрын
Hahaha he supported arsenal!
@scottharrison8122 жыл бұрын
😂
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
I've heard this---
@EverendeverGroup2 жыл бұрын
I believe he also acquired a fond appreciation for spotted dick as well.
@serendigity2 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these short dips into the history of our world.
@fionnmaguireoloughlin35382 жыл бұрын
The modern world!
@EyeLean52802 жыл бұрын
For American viewers: when the British say "corn" it's a generic term and does not mean maize. Instead it's equivalent to our word, "grain."
@DY1422 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Was about to ask this
@ANDROLOMA2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I didn't know that.
@Oheh842 жыл бұрын
I’m British and corn isn’t a generic term 😂😂 🌽
@zackerycooper12062 жыл бұрын
@@Oheh84 It’s actually a generic term for grain in both the UK and US. It’s just not very commonly used in the context of meaning grain generally, though it means grain a little more commonly in the UK.
@johnbrereton52292 жыл бұрын
@@zackerycooper1206 I'm English and here we only refer to corn when it is actually corn. I've never known it to be used as a generic term for any other type of grain. In fact corn has only been grown in the UK for less than 200 years so why would we use it to describe other grains that we have cultivated for far longer?
@suecox23082 жыл бұрын
OMG--that's a pre-Roman tea strainer!! lol. This was all so fascinating--thank you!
@dominicm2552 жыл бұрын
wine strainer. Roman wine was full of impurities, sediment, and plant matter
@rainbowchutney2 жыл бұрын
i think it was a joke lads
@patriciapalmer13772 жыл бұрын
It probably strained the seeds and peels from the cheap homade local brew they put in the nice Roman jugs.
@faithlesshound56212 жыл бұрын
@@patriciapalmer1377 If they heated herbs and seeds in their wine, they made a tisane, or herbal "tea." After boiling and dilution there would not have been much alcohol.
@patriciapalmer13772 жыл бұрын
@@faithlesshound5621 Dear Hound, Nuanced facetiousness is not your strong suit.
@robster68682 жыл бұрын
Love this,my parents moved to colchester a few years ago so it gave me a good reason to see the Roman stuff there,plenty of Roman in the south of France where I’ve lived for the past 8 years. Narbonne,Nîmes etc.Fascinating history
@adamrobertorr90192 жыл бұрын
More videos like these! Julia Farley is a fantastic educator.
@patriciapalmer13772 жыл бұрын
The helmit is beautiful. Imagine it new and glinting in the sun topped with plumes.. This level of sophisticated design, 2000 years ago, still takes my breath away.
@johnraggett71472 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Leipzig. Thank you for this super post. Please can we see something about London and Westminster between the Roman departure and the Norman conquest? The city re-emerged within the 600 year old Roman wall but the street pattern and all the buildings disappeared. Thank you once again.
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
They disappeared even more in 1940.
@sophieincolour2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this excellent piece. I particularly enjoyed the investigative, exploratory way Julia talked, showing where there's evidence and where there's uncertainty. So much more engaging and trustworthy than the 'this is fact' way of talking that those with larger egos might bore us with.
@MixedMartialHelp2 жыл бұрын
Great video, I love Romano British history. I visited Colchester recently with my family and saw some of the sights.
@shalackma2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these videos! They are wonderful pieces of interest and education.
@madaug43892 жыл бұрын
This was terrific, thank you.
@lynnblack64932 жыл бұрын
That was great. Really appreciated extra, and additional info, that saw Roman influence, prior to full blown conquest!
@cassopsnoxdigger6142 жыл бұрын
much appreciated and a very good presentation, thanks Julia & Richard .
@NeonsStyleHD2 жыл бұрын
Love the format of these. This is what we really want. An in depth look into the Museum and the history behind the objects with the occasional tour of an exhibit.
@sdamoros2 жыл бұрын
What an enjoyable and informative lecture!
@davidwagner61162 жыл бұрын
Thank you, your explanation brings these people's lives alive in my mind
@spankflaps13652 жыл бұрын
“You know something, I don’t think these Britons want to be conquered?” (Sid James, Carry on Cleo)
@Tawny67022 жыл бұрын
Infamy, infamy….they’ve all got it infamy! ( Kenneth Williams…..Carry on Cleo)
@legionarybooks132 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! Regarding the helmet, with the questions as to whether it is a Roman soldier's or indigenous Britton's, the answer can easily be "Yes" to both. When we think of the imperial army, our thoughts always turn to the legions; however, there were as many, if not more, soldiers serving in the auxilia. If the holes atop are for a crest, my initial guess is that it belonged to an auxilia cavalryman, possibly a decurion, as I'm not sure if rank-and-file troopers wore crests.
@damionkeeling31032 жыл бұрын
Helmet could easily have belonged to a local Britonnic warrior The only real Roman feature is the enlarged neck guard, everything else is typical of Celtic helmets going back centuries earlier. If you look at where the neck guard begins there is a smaller neck guard representing the shorter Celtic version of the guard.The stamp could be anything, it might even be a unit number as suggested but the helmet might have been war booty originally. The holes at the top look like rivet holes for attaching a crest of some kind, note the circular clean spot surrounding the holes suggesting a cone like structure was orginally attached - which means the original crest could have been anything from a simple plume to a fancy box crest or bronze design.
@susanhepburn60402 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and well presented. Thank you very much - greatly appreciated.
@charlesyanni51952 жыл бұрын
Hear hear. Very well said.
@HistorySkills2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Will be using this in my History lessons.
@daveseddon52272 жыл бұрын
Great presentation! Thank you.
@L-mo2 жыл бұрын
This is so excellent, fascinating and exciting. I want to time travel now.
@MrNas422 жыл бұрын
I hadn't thought of that - "Lets go for a 'Roman' " - when eating out just prior to the Claudian invasion...
@The-RA-Guy2 жыл бұрын
An excellent informative piece from the wonderful British Museum. Very well presented and explained. With a true LOL @ 11:20 via speech to text. 9th Legion Hispania comes out as "his spanner"! Must have been Mechanised Infantry!
@birdshenanigans85062 жыл бұрын
Julia Farley, loveliest historian I've ever watched!
@teddyjackson19022 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff. Could watch for hours.
@njm32112 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
@kikker_g27472 жыл бұрын
Excellent video about an interesting question about Roman history and the history of the British Isles.
@EllieMaes-Grandad2 жыл бұрын
The lady is knowledgeable, articulate and informative, no doubt destined for a most rewarding and useful career. We need more like her!
@debasishbhattacharya28032 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this excellent piece of information regarding Roman civilization and its influence in Britain . From Calcutta
@user-td9qs4vm8q Жыл бұрын
More videos like these! Julia Farley is a fantastic educator.. What an enjoyable and informative lecture!.
@thegreenmage69562 жыл бұрын
Always nice to see Julia Farley.
@TesterAnimal12 жыл бұрын
Fantastic thanks! I took a tour through the Roman section of the BM on a recent trip to ThatLondon. Got a selfie with Mister Bad Tempered (Caracalla)
@alayneperrott969314 күн бұрын
Excellent video!
@alicedavid93972 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and great presentation.......thank u
@jamesneedham62652 жыл бұрын
I like how the British kept the Amphorae cherished them enough for them to be used as a statement of wealth and sophistication at burial. Its like how my Nan likes to keep Fortnum and Mason bags forever.
@jackiedelvalle Жыл бұрын
Haha! Or Harrods bags!
@lynnblack6493 Жыл бұрын
I have to go back and check out the Roman installations and artifacts. Missed so much in earlier visits! Great information.
@sophieincolour2 жыл бұрын
There was a burnt fig found near the Colchester hoard, thought be on a shelf from what I remember. Figs grow well in East Anglia now, even in colder times than when the Romans were around. Did they bring the trees here? If the fig was fresh it implies the burning of Colchester was around September. Do we know the month?
@battenburg60892 жыл бұрын
"How Roman was Roman Britain?" I find myself interested, then realising my county actually traded with the Roman Empire before their invasion of the Isles.
@matthewbryant9582 жыл бұрын
I’m lucky enough to live just a mile or 2 away from vindolanda and housteads forts and obviously the Roman wall. Best place in the world to live
@LordJazzly2 жыл бұрын
11:22 Ooh! Ooh! I recognise those rosettes; at least I've seen them on other gravestones and pieces of masonry. They were on heaps of stuff when I was looking up Canaanite inscriptions - so are they a common mediterranean motif, or did this guy have a gravestone specifically because he was bringing a part of that culture with him, where burial markers like this are relatively more common? Also - what is that 'H.S.E' at the bottom? 'Hic sedit [something]'? Does anyone know? Anyway this is an awesome video about stuff that I'd have liked to have read up on more but haven't had access to the proper books, or time, to be honest. So, er, thanks British Museum!
@varana2 жыл бұрын
HSE is the standard abbreviation for _hic situs est_ , i.e. "is buried here".
@LordJazzly2 жыл бұрын
@@varana Oh! Thanks. That makes sense. My Latin's non-existent, and I don't live in a country with any Roman inscriptions, so I appreciate the explanation.
@omicroneridani74562 жыл бұрын
Surprisingly enough (or perhaps unsurprisingly, it depends), that symbol (those rosettes with six "petals") has been used throughout the centuries in lands and cultures very, very distant from one another. Other noteworthy users were for instance the Templars, and in modern day Europe, some political parties...
@axsos2 жыл бұрын
From the important Roman presence to the huge influence of John Florio to the English language and literature, Italic people have definitely shaped Britain in a profound way.
@monkeysnide2 жыл бұрын
spaghetti
@Swift-mr5zi2 жыл бұрын
If only you gave Henry VIII permission to get that divorce!
@Swift-mr5zi2 жыл бұрын
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@monkeysnide2 жыл бұрын
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@2112jonr2 жыл бұрын
Shaped yes, profound? Less so. German, Norse and French are the major influences.
@Ome992 жыл бұрын
How Roman was roman Britain? Askeladd: Yes
@JHamList2 жыл бұрын
ive always suspected that trade links prior to the invasion, even prior to Julius Caesars expeditions were more significant than people would have thought, people gonna trade, its what theyve always done.
@peterdonaldhume2 жыл бұрын
Don't feel so.pleased about showing how little you know. What you mean is that you have just understood what all educated people already understood about Rome's connection with Britannia - really no need to flaunt this in such a Trumpian display of ignorance. "Who knew that?" Try reading a book next time - any book on the province will make this clear
@Freakishd2 жыл бұрын
@@peterdonaldhume You seem obsessed
@damionkeeling31032 жыл бұрын
@@peterdonaldhume Trade between the British Isles and Europe goes back well into the bronze age and given the beaker folk migrated across the channel in boats of some kind it's a bit of a stretch to assume they never used boats to keep in contact with people in coastal Europe. That said, for those who don't follow history the narrative is one of civilised Rome crossing the great unknown to discover these weird folks called Britons - just ignore the tin trade going back several centuries earlier because many of the generic history books I've read over the years have done just that. They'll mention the tin trade, then pretend Britain was forgotten about by the time Caesar shows up.
@Cat_Woods2 жыл бұрын
Little ironic that the Roman couple killed in the revolt had invoked Fortuna specifically.
@ClassicalRaritiesChannel2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, thanks very much.
@JJSPARROW19782 жыл бұрын
It was so Roman that many romans obtained a British Ancient, which would later be heavily involved in re-enactments, movies and Tv Shows. Cause Caesar was a real geeza!
@dream_emulator2 жыл бұрын
Excellent content
@JohnSmith-jt5qr11 ай бұрын
Thank you for none of the New-Age BCE garbage. You got a Thumb's up from me. Obviously, the video is also GREAT!!!
@MB-oc1nw2 жыл бұрын
That's a "Montefortino" helmet. The design is Celtic but the Romans adopted it from the Celts.
@Sawrattan2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video and presentation style.
@thegreenmage69562 жыл бұрын
The most distinct form of Romano-British culture is of course the architecture, as seen the archaeology of something like Pagan’s Hill Temple. Quite beautiful white and red, octagonal buildings. THAT is true native British architecture. And yet, not one reconstruction has been made. Now, that was a little naughty of Julia to say ‘this is a Roman design of helmet with Celtic decoration’, because we all know that ‘Roman’ design is a copy of the earlier Celtic Coolus-type helmet. Edit: another thing, the largest Celtic Oppida, or towns, are approximately the size of small Greek city states from the same period. It is not accurate or true that native Britons were living in small and medium sized communities, they were also living in large communities. It is also misleading to say that they were living in wooden houses, many of them used stone for the walls where wood was less plentiful, some roundhouses but also entire towers such as the brochs of modern day Scotland, which are the largest free-standing stone structures in the world. As opposed to the Roman walls displayed here, the earlier Celtic usage of stone often used no joining agent, and stones were simply perfectly placed. This is also the case with the stone walls of Celtic Hillforts in Britain as well. The Celts ought not be misrepresented as overly primitive.
@NubiansNapata2 жыл бұрын
Romans considered them primitive.... Romans considered basically everyone in Europe to primitive
@stevecraig61756 ай бұрын
Useful video. When the map shows Colchester I think the location indicated is actually Cambridge?
@donaldauguston97402 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This was quite interesting. DA
@Fernandoenf22 жыл бұрын
Thank you very interesting!!!
@EllieMaes-Grandad2 жыл бұрын
The lady uses BC and AD - highly commendable. May she do so throughout her career - and life.
@arnulfovasquez75832 жыл бұрын
Does Chester still have a Roman wall? I remember my tour guide spoke about it and a bathhouse. Thank you for sharing this video.
@Feltay2 жыл бұрын
It does! I went to university in Chester and would walk around them every day. Most of the sections present now were constructed after the Roman occupation but original portions of it still remain. There's also an amphitheatre (the largest in Britain, I believe), the Roman gardens (with the remnants of the bathhouse) and a unique in situ shrine to Minerva.
@Tulkash012 жыл бұрын
Pro tip, when a town name ends with the suffixes "caster" or "chester" it's because it used to be the site of a roman castrum (military fortress and/or encampment) the same goes for welsh towns ending with "caer". In Chester's case it used to be the site of the Deva Victrix's Castrum.
@tkc11298 ай бұрын
Great video. :-)
@AsadKhan-ii3es2 жыл бұрын
Excellent 👌
@AgTigress2 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Though as others have said, the captions could do with a few corrections.😉
@MrGalpino2 жыл бұрын
The helmet is shaped similarly to Roman ones, but wasn't the Roman helmet inspired by Celtic designs in the first place?
@francoisdaureville3232 жыл бұрын
Em nope? Where do you get that from
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick96472 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@ecurewitz2 жыл бұрын
excellent, thank you
@redrobot89252 жыл бұрын
wine strainer has 'celtic' design. that wd be 'native british' design
@damionkeeling31032 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily, the design is generically celtic and similar forms exist from Celtic Europe. The region of the strainer was occupied by the Catuvellauni, one of the Belgic tribes that made up a cultural bloc in much of southern Britain defined roughly by Weston-Super-Mare to Southampton in the west and the Severn Estuary to The Wash in the north. So the design may have been native British or may have been from Belgic Gaul or simply existed in both places as part of common culture.
@davidevans32272 жыл бұрын
thankyou for sharing this 🙂
@davidevans32272 жыл бұрын
how about people born of romans but now in Britain, (second generation etc) are you roman? British? or what? just like today, what's your identity..??
@rexmundi31082 жыл бұрын
The video talks about the gradual, almost organic intrusion of Rome. This may have been true of some regions in the south, but when they had that foothold they became somewhat less subtle.
@techobsessed12 жыл бұрын
The video explained that there was a Roman influence in Britan before the conquest which strongly implies there was a conquest. But apart from that implication, the video repeatedly mentions the conquest. So, I'm not sure what your point is.
@michaelwilkinson29282 жыл бұрын
Colchester wasn't decimated (one in ten), it was annihilated (from nihil = nothing) i.e. totally destroyed.
@toinebles2 жыл бұрын
OK, but apart from amphora, wine, pounds and writing, what have the Romans ever done for us?
@ElusivePlatypus962 жыл бұрын
Well they brought in aqueducts.. and the roads are to die for!
@toinebles2 жыл бұрын
@@ElusivePlatypus96 yeah, ok, but apart from that?
@phillgreenland23902 жыл бұрын
@@toinebles Major roads.
@eldunenorap22502 жыл бұрын
Would salt from Cheshire be one of the exports back to Rome?
@sophieincolour2 жыл бұрын
There's plenty more salt to mine and be made from seawater between England and Rome. More likely they would have used it more locally, paying their armies etc, don't you think?
@chrisdale54432 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this talk however I found it hard each time that the map was on screen and Colchester was marked in the wrong place
@sophieledieu25842 жыл бұрын
Omg my daughter is learning about this.
@charliesmith_2 жыл бұрын
Am surrounded by Roman Villas in my area. Great fun being an archaeologist in Buckinghamshire on the Berkshire county border x 🇬🇧 I like that most Romans here used hammered out lead to scratch their heartfelt *curses* on others with. Lead lasts longer for a long curse than mere vellum. So many lead curses still being found in damp places. Guess the resident Romans hated their British resident Roman neighbours as much as they did in Rome. Eastenders, Housewives of New York and MSM still keeps the old lead cauldron boiling. Times change, ERA societal people don't. Shove em en masse into high-rise Roman ghettos, or penthouses and you have the benchmark for how people have been trained to behave in a societal vacuum. I can imagine it was a kind of swift 'neighbours from hell' moment when the bigwigs/troops and their chav wives arrived in Britain. We won't mention the Norman's today.
@theBaron05302 жыл бұрын
It shouldn't be any surprise that there were contacts between Britain and the Roman provinces just across the Channel, before AD 43. It was the trade and the products the tribes on the island produced that made it a target of Roman expansion in the first place.
@tomellis47502 жыл бұрын
Good, thank you. What was the purpose of the three holes on the back of the helmet?
@basoon872 жыл бұрын
At 6:50 , that was the best take? Didn't wanna give it one more go?
@eggsaladsamich73962 жыл бұрын
They are both the most beautiful people I have ever seen in history education
@napalmholocaust90932 жыл бұрын
Ceaser's first trip reminds me of Columbus. Both looked around and said they'd return with astroglide.
@HarborLockRoad2 жыл бұрын
For Biggus Dickus, and his wife, Incontinentia Butticus???
@Gorboduc2 жыл бұрын
14:55 to the end is basically Must Farm 2.0.
@johnmckee9122 жыл бұрын
thank you for using BC and AD refreshing !
@ATINKERER2 жыл бұрын
Is that a pearl at 16:06? If it is, the people who owned it must have been very very rich!
@garyhart64212 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the II was added much later --- If it were mine I would not have stamped it there.
@GavTatu2 жыл бұрын
0:14 "oh yeah Anotius, take your peaked helmet, its blazing sunshine in Britannica" .....snigger.
@gfuentes84492 жыл бұрын
Thank you for not making this PC awesome vid
@Syrkyth Жыл бұрын
3:13 Wait, corn? Edit: Ohhh, apparently in British English 'corn' refers to any cereal plant grown for its seeds/grain. The word 'corn' in my locale refers to maize and maize only.
@radicalpaddyo2 жыл бұрын
Judging by the size of my nose, pretty Roman I'd imagine
@Adrian-vy5vn2 жыл бұрын
Roman-british pedigree
@laurahastings-brownstein14812 жыл бұрын
Or French!
@StarCrusher.2 жыл бұрын
Ey, big nose!
@Wotsitorlabart2 жыл бұрын
Is it Roman all over your face?
@Nilguiri2 жыл бұрын
@@Wotsitorlabart ha! I hadn't heard that classic for probably over 30 years!
@crookedpaths66122 жыл бұрын
The decorations on the helmet are they one-off privately commissioned pieces of art or are they forms of insignia that the Roman army would use to identify individual units of legionaries?
@niccolopozzati49092 жыл бұрын
I like this video. Roman Britain is the subject of my thesis
@KlausBeckEwerhardy2 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't it be 'sandals on the ground'? 😁
@Gambleiit2 жыл бұрын
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE I doubt she had Roman blood as she was the queen of a tribe which was in the process of being subjugated by the Roman's. In regards to relations.. "Boudica's husband Prasutagus, with whom she had two children whose names are unknown, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and to the Roman emperor in his will. However, when he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken."
@cholulahotsauce61662 жыл бұрын
Caligulae on the ground
@cholulahotsauce61662 жыл бұрын
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE whoops, I meant caligae.
@mikefabbi51272 жыл бұрын
Thongs on the ground lol.
@mikefabbi51272 жыл бұрын
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE I don't get it but don't worry I don't get a lot of things.
@thepunadude2 жыл бұрын
WELL, ENUFF TO BE CALLED 'ROMAN BRITAIN' BY YOU!
@pattheplanter2 жыл бұрын
Not enough to be British Rome.
@user-xh4cj5kw8j5 ай бұрын
Good stuff! Shame about the 'his spanner' - instead of Hispana!
@Nuevomexicano2 жыл бұрын
3:12 how was corn traded if it’s from the new world?
@faithlesshound56212 жыл бұрын
It wasn't "Indian corn" that they were trading.
@LeandroCapstick2 жыл бұрын
Corn does not necessarily mean maize, but means any type of grain such as wheat or Barley.
@Nuevomexicano2 жыл бұрын
@@LeandroCapstick really I’ve never heard that probably because I’m from the states
@LeandroCapstick2 жыл бұрын
@@Nuevomexicano yeah it's a British thing
@johnbockman60782 жыл бұрын
I seem to remember from a book by the geneticist Bryan Sykes that said the presence of Roman DNA is pretty much nonexistent among the British, his hypothesis being that the Romans stationed Germanic mercenaries there. In fact, he says that no really distinct Celtic or Germanic DNA can be found in any individual because the inter-mixture has been going on for so long from generation to generation. I knew a woman named Honnig who was from York, and she told me it meant "honey," which I knew already from my knowledge of German. However, though she may identify herself with the Danes who settled there ages ago, her genetic make-up is much more mixed. As has been pointed out by somebody, nearly everybody in Britain can trace their family back in a very round-about way to William the Congueror.
@vivaseineldin2 жыл бұрын
Clearly the British have Italian blood. Just look at the brown eyes & dark hair & Mediterranean noses of The Beatles (John, Paul, George & Ringo, although Ringo has blue eyes he clearly has a long Roman nose)
@fabrizio.guidi64 Жыл бұрын
more than a million English people are descended directly from the ancient Romans
@faithlesshound56212 жыл бұрын
Ireland also had some wealthy people who lived like the Romans. Excavations on the East coast have uncovered a few Roman-like buildings, although it is fairly certain that the Romans did not invade, or at least make any permanent camp on the island. Those would have been the original "West Brits!"
@NubiansNapata2 жыл бұрын
Romans civilized the region
@lohphat2 жыл бұрын
What did they ever do for us!?
@purpurina56632 жыл бұрын
“Us” -what makes you think you don’t have Roman ancestors
@lohphat2 жыл бұрын
Guess who hasn’t watched “Life of Brian”?
@lifeonmars10442 жыл бұрын
😂 love that film
@purpurina56632 жыл бұрын
@@lohphat lol touché
@thhseeking2 жыл бұрын
"Smashing people" :P And they did a lot of that, too XD
@europainhollywood2 жыл бұрын
First I’ve ever heard of Budakan sp? And the rebellion!