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Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is based on common misconceptions.
But as the empire began its long decline—Rome would fall in the fifth century ... as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure: a 13th-century monk from Colmar had ...
474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century ... but very useful maps ...
VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...
Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.
Aquileia (in Friuli-Venezia Giulia), one of the largest and wealthiest cities of the Early Roman Empire, was destroyed by Attila in the mid-5th century. Most of it still lies unexcavated beneath the ...
Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...