When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Reviving a forgotten Roman and Indian trade route could contain China, unite America’s allies, and reshape the global order.

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer, its wealthy citizens demanded increasing amounts of luxury items, especially ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...

The Roman conquest of Greece has been an integral part of the long and rich history of this proud nation in the Eastern ...

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

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Restoration work on the Rusovce Mansion in the capital of Slovakia has unearthed remnants of the first known Roman aqueduct ...