A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have served 35 years of a life prison term for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home, were ruled eligible for parole by a Los Angeles judge ...

From that day, the Western Roman Empire ceases to exist ... leaving the Senate—an institution that traced its history to the eighth century B.C.—as little more than a city council.

Just to clarify, it's not like they all forgot their coats and dropped dead. Scientific evidence suggests that there may have been a little ice age around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

The exact date for the Western Roman Empire's fall is up for debate, with some saying it happened in A.D. 410 with the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths, and others putting it at A.D. 476, with the ...

but came from places within the Roman empire, including Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They were treated very differently. Legionaries were often given benefits, like land to farm when ...

Kaldellis writes, “The history of the New Roman Empire is one of the most fascinating tales in human history. It is at times Biblical, taking its cue from scriptural archetypes, and at times heroic, ...

even for readers well-versed in classical history. An introductory chapter poses the question, “What did it mean to be Roman after Rome ceased to be part of the empire?” This question engaged members ...