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.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

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

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

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 ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ...

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

Because life is brief and vacations are even briefer, here is a shortlist of must-do experiences to enjoy once you’ve ...

The world was just as intertwined 100 years ago, and its unraveling was a disaster. Can we avoid the same outcome?