Researchers built the most complete Roman road map ever made, charting nearly 186,000 miles across Europe, North Africa, and ...

Attila the Hun, 434-453 A.D. illustration published in 1894. Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe ...

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern ...

Ancient Rome lives on in the minds of men, according to a viral TikTok trend. Here's what it's all about. If you’ve seen an inordinate amount of Roman Empire references lately, it’s not because a ...

It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

There are any number of factors that contribute to the demise of an entire civilization, like the collapse of the Roman Empire circa 476 AD. The empire’s slow decline is typically attributed to ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...