In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in Vienna’s neighboring town of Simmerling. Archeologists from the Vienna ...

Ice age triggered by volcanic ash from three massive eruptions that lowered global temperatures may have caused the Roman ...

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

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

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests ... but with a short, intense period of action. "They selected a list ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...