There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local Italian family, it was a day just like any other. Food was being prepared in ...

Temperatures cooled (though not to the extent of the LALIA), and conditions became less stable. So, yes, climate change was a cause of the Western Roman Empire's fall. Was that the only cause?

The two cultures fused to such an extent that historians group them together as Greco-Roman culture. On Rome’s eastern borders was the Parthian (Persian) Empire. For a time Rome was able to ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... debate over the extent and length of the ...

and there is an extensive debate over the extent and length of the Justinianic plague. But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, setting ...

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 ...

said that the basilica's discovery was “hugely significant” because it also revealed how the province of Britannia was integrated into the broader Roman Empire. “What the discovery ...

"This beautifully made knife handle is a testament to how pervasive this celebrity culture was, reaching all the way to Hadrian's Wall at the very edge of the Roman Empire," archaeologist Frances ...