Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

A rchaeologists excavating a Roman -era fort in northern England have unearthed several enormous ancient leather soles that measure more than 11.8 inches (30 centimeters) long.

It sounds awful to a modern person, but it seems the Romans did not complain about the smell of the ancient city that much.

A rare Roman military camp discovered deep in the Dutch Veluwe reveals the empire's reach extended far beyond its known ...

The first volume of Edward Gibbon’s magisterial The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence.

An ancient inscription, found beneath the floor of an Israeli prison, hailed as "the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea ...

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers ...

There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion.

New Pompeii discovery reveals the tragic true extent of human suffering A chilling new discovery at the site of Pompeii reveals the tragic true extent of human suffering 2000 years after the disaster.

The Roman Empire didn’t need another problem. Should we be taking notes? Historians have always been aware of LALIA, but to what extent had it shaken the empire?