He punctuates his narrative from time to time with chapters offering overviews of military trends and developments across ... of the board”, albeit an all powerful one. The Roman Empire in Late ...

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 ...

The Emperor and the Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 235 by B Campbell (Oxford, 1984) The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337. A Sourcebook by B Campbell (London, 1994) Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, c.

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.

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

I made my way through the first volume, immersed in the decadence of the late Roman Empire, an era riveting in its excesses, but at least passingly familiar. Then I entered an entirely new and ...