Aerial View of Ancient Roman Ruins in Rome. Scientists have found that the 'Little Ice Age' may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire almost 572 years ago. For a long time, it had been ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they ...

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn the lessons of history. Whether they focus on the fall of ...

Average income in the Roman Empire was 2.25 times the subsistence minimum, compared to 1.88 in the Han Dynasty. The top 1% in Rome earned 19% of total income, while in Han, it was 26%. The Gini ...

Rocky cliffs on Iceland's Coast (Image Credit: EricLiu08/Shutterstock) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Exactly what caused the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire has been hotly debated practically since the fall itself. Was ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The team believes that rapid climate cooling contributed to a mass migration of people within ...

For decades, historians have debated to what extent climate cooling may have influenced the decline of the Roman Empire. This new study provides physical evidence that reinforces the hypothesis that ...