The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers ... Keeping the army on side As future Emperors would discover, while soldiers were loyal to their emperor, this loyalty was nothing ...

Despite prophesies of future greatness , Augustus was a sickly ... Cleopatra and Marc Antony killed themselves and, finally, the Roman Empire now included the land of the pharaohs.

Long before the Viking Age, small kingdoms began forming across Scandinavia, reshaping tribal societies and setting the stage for future conquests. Historians say these early rulers borrowed elements ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled laborers ... today—crews working within the archaeological Future Heritage Project recently unearthed five new ...