Why exactly did the Roman Empire fall? The answer to this question has been heavily debated practically since the empire’s [… ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map. It was ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

A ccording to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...

Trier, known as Germany’s Roman capital, rose to prominence as a major metropolis in the Roman Empire north of the ... of the stamped bricks date from Late Antiquity. This allows us to conduct ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...

A research team studied unusual rocks in Iceland to better understand the Late Antique Little Ice Age ... Iceland may help tell the story of the Roman Empire’s demise. A team of researchers ...