Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Exactly what caused the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire has been hotly debated practically since the fall itself. Was ...

A recent study from Oxford and Warsaw Universities offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. Contrary to the popular belief that climate change and the Justinianic Plague ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty ...

Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.