Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

Researchers uncover 51 elongated skulls in an ancient Hungarian cemetery, offering clues about the cultural transformations ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality. And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended. Share We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

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 skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Verona was ruled by the della Scala (Scaliger ... Just outside the Città Antica, on the ...