It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 ... invasions. The empire's vast size made it difficult to manage, leading ...

The reasons behind the fall are numerous ... late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the vast empire into ...

and sculptures dating from the city's foundation in 16 B.C.E. through the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The museum's showstopper is the Trier Gold Hoard, discovered in 1993 by construction ...

There is a good case to be made that Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall ... Roman Empire, orthodox Christian to its core, persisted for another thousand years after the fall of the Western Empire.

A University of Southampton spokeswoman said: “Historians have long debated the role of climatic cooling in the fall of the Roman empire. “This new research strengthens the case that a brief ...

The international team of geoscientists focused their work on a unique finding: a group of unusual rocks located on an elevated beach terrace on Iceland’s western coast ... have influenced the decline ...

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 ...

Another added, “The fall of the Roman Empire was not about race—it was the result of military overreach, economic decline, corruption, and invasions by various groups (like the Huns ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have ... the collapse of empires. What is an Empire? History has seen the rise and fall of countless empires, from Ghengis Khan’s Mongol Empire to the ...

“When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Tom Gernon, professor of Earth science at the University of ...