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

The Walls of Constantinople stand as one of history’s greatest feats of military engineering, an impenetrable fortress that protected the Byzantine capital for over a thousand years. Built by the ...

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

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

Aqueducts are very impressive examples of the art of construction in the Roman Empire. Even today, they still provide us with new insights into aesthetic, practical, and technical aspects of ...

For fifteen centuries, since the establishment of the imperial rule of the Roman Republic by Caesar Augustus in 29 B.C., there had been Roman Emperors and now they were gone.

Van Milligen, Alexander; "Byzantine Constantinople"In a superb octavo volume, replete with valuable maps, plans, and illustrations, and bearing the title "Byzantine Constantinople," Alexander Van ...

The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex ...

For years, the unstoppable Attila sacked city after city until a Germanic-Roman alliance halted the Huns in A.D. 451. The victory underlined a hard truth for the tottering empire: The barbarian ...

The Perils of the Purple in the Later Roman Empire In this first ever biography of the Emperor Zeno (r. 474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man ...

Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury villa in Roman London. Fragments of shattered wall plaster, which ...