This settlement has long been written off as a failed backwater, but new evidence suggested it flourished even as the Roman Empire crumbled around it. The Crisis of the Third Century was a period ...

Rome's "Crisis of the Third Century" I enjoy Pen & Sword's ancient military ... Then there were surprising heroes, like Odaenathus, a non-Roman who valiantly defended the Empire against the marauding ...

The showdown had been decades in the making. By the middle of the third century A.D. the Roman Empire was mired in political and economic crisis, its frontiers under constant attack, and its ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...