Barbarian warriors who topped the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the mighty Roman Empire may have been high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers ...

In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Italy. The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire, survived for a few centuries longer, but never ...

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 ...

The eruptions released sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere, reducing solar radiation and causing global temperatures to drop by as much as 2°C. "When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this ...

Many historians consider the fall of the Western Roman Empire to have been when the emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated, but not all historians agree. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Within a single chaotic generation on either side of the year 400, several confederations crossed into the western half of the empire. On Roman soil, these immigrants then formed themselves into ...

Visitors will find an extensive collection of Roman antiquities including mosaics, frescoes, and sculptures dating from the city's foundation in 16 B.C.E. through the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

In A.D. 395 the Roman Empire was split in two, ever after separately administered as the Western Roman Empire with Rome as its capital and the Byzantine, Eastern Roman Empire with Constantinople ...