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

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 ...

“Ravenna attracted the best artists and architects from around the empire,” noted Claudia Frassineti ... many of its majestic Roman-era structures have simply vanished and been replaced ...

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 ...

Some Christians were arrested and put to death. At the beginning of the 5th century, the Roman Empire was starting to fall apart. It was constantly under attack from tribes from northern Europe.

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 ...