The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally ... assumptions previously held about the area and the ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

AN obsession with rules and regulations is eroding the foundations of society, leaving the West facing a collapse akin to ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... which the century of Hun mayhem was instrumental in Rome’s eventual collapse. Many modern historians consider Attila as a colorful detail in ...

This essay considers how one of the most classic of all historical questions – the fall of the Roman Empire – can receive an answer enriched by new knowledge about the role of environmental change.

“America’s current retreat from its engagements around the world — from gutting USAid to abandoning European allies — ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ... held about the area and the decline of Roman Italy.