A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Pax Augusta is a highly detailed and highly ambitious city-builder from solo developer Roger Gassman. You take control of a ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

However, it's not just Scotland that will feel the chill; the rest of Britain is also predicted to experience some degree of unsettled weather. Cities including Birmingham, London, Plymouth, ...

triggering mass migrations that transformed the map of Europe at the time. Regarding the collapse of the Roman Empire, this climate change may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, said ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...