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

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.

Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... and mountain watchtowers marks Rome’s limits. At its peak in the second century A.D., the empire sent soldiers to patrol a front that ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

At the height of its reign the Roman Empire held territory spanning from the Atlantic to the Tigris. The empire was a formidable political force that dominated the peoples of three separate ...

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.

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 ...