Before the English There Was a Civilization in England So Advanced It Terrified the SAXONS

🔔 Subscribe for more forgotten history, ancient mysteries, and hidden stories from England’s distant past. 👉    / @sleepyukhistory   Long before the English kingdoms emerged, the land we now call England was already home to powerful and complex societies. For centuries, prehistoric communities, Roman Britain, and post-Roman kingdoms shaped the landscape long before the Saxons established themselves. But what was England really like before the English? Across the country are ancient hillforts, enormous earthworks, Roman settlements, burial sites, sacred monuments, and archaeological discoveries that reveal a world far more sophisticated and complicated than the surviving written records suggest. In this episode, we explore the civilizations and cultures that existed in England before the rise of the English and the arrival of the Saxons — examining their settlements, warfare, trade, technology, monuments, and the archaeological clues they left behind. Who were the people who lived here before the Saxons? What happened to them when new populations arrived? And how much of their history has disappeared beneath centuries of change? The deeper we dig into England’s pre-English past, the stranger the story becomes. #History #AncientEngland #EnglishHistory #Saxons #AngloSaxons #AncientBritain #Archaeology #LostHistory #HistoryDocumentary #AncientMysteries