When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the ...

The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mass grave beneath a soccer field in Vienna, revealing the remains ofabout 150 Roman ...

The world was just as intertwined 100 years ago, and its unraveling was a disaster. Can we avoid the same outcome?

According to historian Edward Gibbon, the Roman Empire’s demise was the result of the gradual loss of civic virtue ...

VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...