When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

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, ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...