The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

There were lots of reasons that the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but recent research suggests there may have been a climate crisis that contributed to its demise ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

"The unceasing round of valour, greatness, discord, degeneracy, and decay." This is how Edward Gibbon summarises the lifecycles of Asiatic dynasties in his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of ...