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 ...

If the Roman Empire converting to Catholicism was a miracle, Catholicism enduring beyond the Roman Empire’s fall was even more miraculous. Leo is thus a fitting name for a pope to bear in our ...

How to play Total War: ATTILA for free on Steam via VpeSports. Imagine a map of Europe in the 4th–5th centuries AD spread out before you. Cities are burning, empires are collapsing under the onslaught ...

One popular image depicts the four panels comprising Victorian painter Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire showing the decline and graphic destruction of the Roman empire. This is accompanied by the ...

For years now the fall of the Western Roman Empire has been a subject of debate among historians. Many of the theories behind the fall of the Western Roman Empire are fittingly epic for such a ...

Pope Miltiades is believed to have been born in Africa. During his reign, Christianity gained increasing acceptance from successive Roman emperors, eventually becoming the Empire's official religion.

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 ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with institutions from Canada and China, offers new evidence about the intensity and scope of the Late Antique Little Ice ...

From its foundation in 27 BC under Augustus to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 1453, Rome left an indelible mark on human history. Over its ...