Researchers have made the astonishing claim that the fierce warriors who brought down the Roman Empire were under the ...

Barbarian warriors who topped the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, ...

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

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 ...

Emperor Theodosius I dies. The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians ...

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

This essay considers how one of the most classic of all historical questions – the fall of the Roman Empire – can receive an answer enriched by new knowledge about the role of environmental change.

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?

They came from the tribes that raided and eventually toppled the mighty Roman empire. The Western Roman Empire fell in 478 following centuries of civil wars, increased corruption and barbarian ...