The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

Nine of the worst Roman emperors, known for madness, violence, corruption, and misrule, ultimately pushed the Roman Empire ...

In 1972 a team of expert MIT scientists used a computer model to predict when society would collapse. Here's some indicators into what they found and when they think there will be a societal collapse.

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453. The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire, 1453 ...

In 330AD, Emperor Constantine split the Roman Empire into two eastern and western halves. Rome remained the capital of the Western Roman Empire, while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims.. Between A.D. 536 and 547 ...

This is widely considered to be the end point of the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, survived until 1453, though many historians — Heather ...

In some other places around the Mediterranean, the team has found signs of reforestation after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire around AD 476. But at Lake Volvi, from around AD 540, the ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s ...