“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... were stripped to bare brick in the Middle Ages, but many parts still loom around ...

Easter on April Fools' Day is a thing. One of the most important holidays in Christianity, here's when the two coincided ...

Another potential origin is a New Year’s tradition from the Middle Ages called the “Feast of ... a solar calendar that was used by the Roman Empire. This year, Easter and Eastern Orthodox ...

Did you know many fruits and vegetables used to look very different? These are some of the most drastic changes in common ...

Physicians from Islamic countries during the late Middle Ages enjoyed great respect ... considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire, and had been forced to flee to Persia.

He had survived being robbed by Bedouins in the Middle East and nearly froze with ... By March, Portugal, the Kingdom of Naples and the Holy Roman Empire had joined the fray, creating what became ...

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

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 ... in use specifically between the middle of the first century and the start ...