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 ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over whether ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

AN obsession with rules and regulations is eroding the foundations of society, leaving the West facing a collapse akin to that of the Roman empire, a psychiatrist and author will warn in a talk ...

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 ...

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

For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat and the ... This was standard practice throughout the empire, but it collapsed just four years after Nero became emperor.

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ... held about the area and the decline of Roman Italy.