What did race and identity mean in the Roman Empire? In this historical documentary, we analyze how ancient Romans—through figures like Cicero, Julius Caesar, and early Christian writers—understood ...

Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

Unusual small stones on a beach in Iceland may help tell the story of the Roman Empire’s demise ... local cobbles—round stones about the size of a human fist—and the mineral clues embedded ...

Researchers have found evidence to suggest that a 'little ice age' contributed to the Roman Empire's collapse 572 ... Cobbles are rounded rocks about the size of a fist. This points to two ...

Drawing historical parallels with the Roman Empire, Musk blames modern hedonism and envy ... Korea will be about 4% of its current size... Maybe even less than that. They’re only at one-third ...

Researchers from Macedonia’s Institute and Museum–Bitola and Cal Poly Humboldt are uncovering an ancient city, predating the Roman Empire by ... the history of the Macedonian civilization ...

They were in fact Macedonian Greek ... together the two appeared to lay out plans for an eastern Roman empire. Antony and Octavian's fragile peace came to an end in 31 B.C., when Octavian declared ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic ... archaeologist and corresponding author of the new study, said the size of the utensils meant they were impractical ...

While there have been countless empires throughout history, a few stand out as great due to their size ... 1206 to 1368 AD, the empire began to falter after wars over succession. The Mongols conquered ...

This clearly shows the Macedonian Empire’s far-reaching influence during that time, establishing Hellenistic dominance before the Roman Empire’s emergence. The Macedonian gold staters became a ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated trade, filled tax coffers and funded military conquests. But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver was ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease ... were used to map the general changes in the ...