Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

This scurrilous, wonderfully detailed potted history of 12 Roman rulers still resonates in a sparky new translation ...

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

These iconic European rulers are the gold standard when it comes to running an empire. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...

Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and ...

Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had ...