Downfall. The decline and eventual “fall” of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE was not due to a single event, but rather a series of factors that gradually weakened it over centuries. The ...

Roman men liked to write, and they did a lot of it, and then over time, the people who were obsessed with Rome wrote a lot about them and their times. The Founding Fathers of the United States ...

Children were supposed to learn the lesson that while we might have become peripheral, once upon a time we Irish rescued ...

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 ...

Iranians have never been themselves since they ceased to be Persians, but it's never too late to reverse history. Now is the ...

Assassin's Creed has taken fans to a impressive range of timelines and locations so far, and there's a few outstanding ones ...

Look beyond the world's usual city break destinations and uncover a collection of underrated, under-the-radar cities that belong on every traveller’s must-visit list.

Its location protected it from attack and positioned it as a trade hub between Europe and Asia. Byzantium’s Greek roots go back to 700 BCE. Greeks remained in what is now modern Turkey until 1921.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of the grand bilingual and tricultural experiment that is Sudbury’s university. This ...

Constantinople, originally founded as Byzantium by the ancient Greeks in 657 BCE, became the capital of the Byzantine Empire in 330 CE under the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. In 1453, it was ...