The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa reaching its maximum size of roughly 5 million square ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and ...

As the Roman Empire fell into serious decline in the 5th century, there were several attempts to restore Roman power amid the ...

probably not only due to the fall of the Roman Empire, but also, because a wider population decline in many areas at the time. "Juglans [walnut] has a different pattern," says Krebs. The spread ...

Were the soldiers of the late Roman Empire truly weak and undisciplined, or is that just a myth? This video reevaluates their training, equipment, and real battlefield performance.

A study of the Roman conquest of Anatolia reveals how imperial expansion fueled economic growth but ultimately triggered ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

They read Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume I published in 1776—what timing!) and fretted that their republic would follow the fate of the licentious Roman Empire.