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

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 ...

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

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, ...

How did it happen that Odoacer’s coup, the beginning of this Roman resurgence, instead came to be seen as the fall of Rome? The answer lies not in Italy but in Constantinople.

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.

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 Society, founded in 1910, is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire. Its scope is wide, covering Roman history, archaeology, ...

DAYS IN TURKEY'S CAPITAL; ROMAN REMAINS AND FAMOUS ROMAN SITES. DAIRY OF AN IDLE WOMAN IN CONSTANTINOPLE. By Frances Elliot. With map and illustrations. 12mo. New-York: D. Appleton & Co. Give this ...

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 ...