Witness the entire story of the Roman Empire’s rise and fall through powerful visual charts. From conquests to collapse, the data tells it all in just minutes.

In today’s sizes, the shoes would have been the equivalent of a UK men’s size 12 to 14, which is 13 to 15 in the US. In ...

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

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet chestnut pollen grew. Specifically, the percentage of sweet chestnut pollen relative to other pollen across Europe "shows a pattern of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...