Despite the fall of the Western Roman Empire, many Roman urban centers continued to influence the region well into 700 AD. Discover their lasting impact here.

The Byzantine Empire, which lasted for over a millennium, is one of history's most fascinating empires, not just for its ...

Downfall. The decline and eventual “fall” of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE was not due to a single event, but rather a series of factors that gradually weakened it over centuries. The ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Students from the Constructing the Limes project, together with archaeologists from Saxion University, discovered a Roman military camp in Veluwe, the largest forest in the Netherlands, near the town ...

A new discovery of a Roman army marching camp changes what we know about the frontier boundaries of the empire beyond the Rhine River. The camp was located within the forested Veluwe in the ...

On June 28, the church celebrates the feast day of St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the most recently declared doctor of the church.

Excavated artifacts at Drumanagh include glass beads, gaming pieces, a bone comb, and dice made from antler. Previous archaeological work at the site has shown that while there was no settlement there ...

The night sky in July a phenomenon that reminds skywatchers how remarkable it is just to be alive and to experience such ...

Roman men liked to write, and they did a lot of it, and then over time, the people who were obsessed with Rome wrote a lot about them and their times. The Founding Fathers of the United States ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...

After centuries of European domination, Rome — or the Western Roman Empire — fell in the 5th century. Rome was sacked by Germanic Visigoths in 410, and then in 476, ...