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

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The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

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Thanks to a mouse watching clips from ‘The Matrix,’ scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix ...

This period of climatic cooling is believed to have played a significant role in the collapse of the Roman Empire. Tom Gernon, professor of earth science at the University of Southampton ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

Reiner Riedler / Vienna Museum Researchers suspect the fighting took place sometime in the late first century C.E.—probably between 86 and 96 C.E. during the Roman Empire’s Danube campaigns ...

(Alex Bowie / Getty Images) Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part of the Mexican Empire, and then nearly two decades as a fragmented federal ...

This Is the Largest Gold Nugget in English History Vitellius’ short reign came during the first civil war of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero. Known as the “Year of the Four ...