Alaric I was a chieftain of the Tervingian tribe who is often considered the first historical king of the Visigoths. He is ...

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 ...

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

Sailors frequenting the waters around the Byzantine capital of Constantinople were attacked by an infamous whale during the ...

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

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 ...

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.

The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex question with multiple answers. Explore the vast and tangled legacy of Rome, ...

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 ...