Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse ...

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

Global environmental history is currently being enriched by troves of ... This essay considers how one of the most classic of all historical questions – the fall of the Roman Empire – can receive an ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor ...

delusional Commodus declares himself a god, and no one is safe; not even Aurelius' daughter, Lucilla. Can anyone stop the fall of the Roman Empire?