Scientists have found new evidence showing the scale of the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The University of Southampton team, ...

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

Robert Caro’s fame rests on his epic works of historical nonfiction—The Power Broker, his disposition of urban planner Robert ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

According to historian Edward Gibbon, the Roman Empire’s demise was the result of the gradual loss of civic virtue ...

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor ...

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Edward Thomas James, 63, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the brutal 1993 murders of 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Toni Neuner, who was raped.