Researchers have made the astonishing claim that the fierce warriors who brought down the Roman Empire were under the ...

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

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

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

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

Philip I and his son Philip II had attempted to maintain stability in the province of Thrace, but constant barbarian raids ... about the region’s Roman past. Twice a day, Earth’s surface experiences a ...

In the brilliant long-form podcast Fall of Civilizations, author Paul Cooper gives listeners a sense of how average citizens living in ...

The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages (Fifth–Eighth centuries ... Warlords, petty kings and shifting barbarian kingdoms—Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths and Franks—fought for dominance, carving ...

that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.’ Quite when Peter Heather took the decision to write his latest book, The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and ...