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How the humble chestnut traced the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...
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A New Reason For The Fall Of The Roman Empire Was "The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back"
A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Did this mini-ice ...
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Roman Roads Continued to Be Used in Medieval England for Over a Thousand Years After the Fall of the Empire
The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a ...
Skeleton from Roman gladiator cemetery was mauled by a lion or other big cat, archaeologists suggest
A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire.