Three pandemics in the Roman Empire coincided with abnormally cold ... reconstructed the climate of southern Italy between 200 BC and AD 600 by analysing the remains of plankton in a sediment ...

Is the Roman Empire on your mind? If so, France should be on your list of must-visit destinations! Having been inhabited by the Romans for many centuries, France became the birthplace of several Roman ...

The lecture will showcase Roman architecture and art, explaining the influence Rome exerted on contemporary art and culture.

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...

But the team's archaeological investigations have enabled it to reveal a series of architectural elements that are indicative of large and clearly public buildings of the Roman Empire. Among the ...

Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire. As its name suggests, the equestrian class was ...

So, what caused the downfall of the Roman Empire (which began in 27 BC)? Economy, administration: why did the Roman Empire collapse? For several decades, barbarian tribes had been challenging ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated ... The findings would make Rome’s roughly 200-year golden age, or Pax Romana, one of the earliest examples ...

An extraordinary hoard of nearly 3,000 Roman-era ... the Roman Empire, but finding such a large treasure outside its former lands is exceedingly rare. Alongside the coins, over 200 decorative ...

Jews had been banished from Rome in 139 BC, again in 19 AD and during the reign of Claudius. However, they were soon allowed to return and continue their independent existence under Roman law.