Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

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

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they ...

Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire.

Rocky cliffs on Iceland's Coast (Image Credit: EricLiu08/Shutterstock) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of ... fact that the rocks come from nearly all geological ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood ... This, again, resulted in greater income disparities between the center and outer regions of the empire. This presents an interesting ...

Unusual small stones on a beach in Iceland may help tell the story of the Roman Empire’s demise ... allows us to fingerprint currently exposed regions of the Earth’s surface, much like ...

A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after ...