"The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" represents one more attempt to research and analyse this sequence of historical events but generation after generation of imperialistic and ambitious leaders ...

Despite the Roman Empire's extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region between 1 and 1000 CE found no genetic ...

From the truth of a gladiator’s life as a slave-warrior to the ways Rome’s Emperors used the vast amphitheatre to demonstrate total power, “Colosseum” offers viewers a unique and personal look inside ...

A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated trade, filled tax coffers and funded military conquests. But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver was also ...

During the Roman Warm Period, roughly from the 2nd century BCE to the mid-2nd century CE, much of the Mediterranean and northern Europe experienced unusually warm and stable conditions. This episode ...

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough to affect IQs. It’s perhaps historically appropriate that the word “ironic ...

This image shows the skull of the East African individual plus the oil lamp with the legionary eagle that he was buried with. Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on ...