For decades, one theory has fascinated historians and the general public: the idea that the Roman Empire fell, at least in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer ...

There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single event but a chain reaction. Key battles such as Adrianople, the Frigidus River, the Catalonian Plains, and Cape Bon drained manpower, morale, and ...

The Roman Empire was on the road to collapse, never to recover again. But what if all of this never happened? What would the ...

ALDBOROUGH, ENGLAND—When the Romans conquered Britain in the first century a.d., they transformed the island into an industrial powerhouse, particularly by means of large-scale extraction and ...

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