Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ...

Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...

International relations are dictated by power, not morality. History shows might makes right, from Rome to modern conflicts. Learn why strength, not justice, determines world power.

Rome was sacked by Germanic Visigoths in 410, and then in 476, Germanic leader Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. It seems to fit the brief of a societal collapse.

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire.

From Julius Caesar to Romulus Augustulus, the two explore the daily lives of the most powerful people in the Roman Empire. How did they rule over and interact with their subjects?

Romulus Augustulus surrenders his crown to Odoacer, in a 19th-century illustration. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons During this well-earned retirement, he became a lover of literature, the ...

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of ...

Two episodes last week show how politics in the Southwest sets it apart from other parts of the country. They are the ouster of the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, and the ...

At this season's midpoint, Stan Son looks at the opportunities created by recent injuries, the return of Kawhi Leonard and more.