Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s severity.

"We can now start to build a better image of what these gladiators were ... that man versus lion matches occurred during the Roman Empire, reshaping our perception of Roman entertainment culture." ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

The coins featured the images of Nero, Marcus Aurelius ... according to the University of Oxford’s Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project database. The coins date back to the Roman Imperial Period, ...