The fall of the Roman Empire is one of the most famous events in world history. But Rome did not collapse overnight. Instead, the empire declined gradually over centuries as political instability, ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

A supposed "backwater" of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's decline, according to a research project that has lasted more than a decade. For 13 ...

When people think of the Roman Empire, they usually imagine Rome itself. But by the time the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, its capital was no longer Rome — it was the city of Ravenna.

Geneticists have shed new light on the effects of the Roman Empire on Southeast Europe. New DNA analysis has shown how the rise and fall of the empire influenced populations in the Balkans—a region of ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient ...

(via SciShow) There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had a point ...

The day they ask if you’d ratherbe burned or buried, the president crasheshis bike into a sand dune. Sitting in the long waiting roombetween seconds, I notice you, made god-like by your pain,wrapping ...

Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire. According to a published study in Roman Urbanism in Italy, this central Italian town thrived well beyond ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “We started with a site so unpromising that no one had ever tried to excavate it,” Alessandro Launaro, the study’s author and Interamna Lirenas ...