The year 476 AD is often described as the moment the Roman Empire fell. But what actually happened? Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic general serving within the Roman system. The ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single event but a chain reaction. Key battles such as Adrianople, the Frigidus River, the Catalonian Plains, and Cape Bon drained manpower, morale, and ...

(via SciShow) There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had a point ...

The State of the Union address has been in decline for decade as a TV spectacle, and Trump probably hastened that trend ...

A rtificial Intelligence (AI) has been able to crack the rules of a mysterious Roman board game that’s been lost to history for over 1,500 years. By analysing the scratches on a weathered limestone ...

While Rome held significant influence and impact on the Empire, most of its power actually resided elsewhere. The fall of ...

The Acropolis Museum located only 1,000 feet from the famed hill of the same name hosts some of the world's most important ...

On the other hand, Rachman’s invocation (somewhere between a fond hope and plaintive cry) of a post-Neronian presidency overlooks the fact that the normal political order in Rome was substantially ...

There are different theories about why the holiday falls in the middle of February, but the month has always been associated ...

New dating shows a Roman villa mosaic was laid in the 5th century, reshaping post-Roman Britain. Long thought to have been abandoned after 410 AD, Roman villas like Chedworth were believed to mark the ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...

For decades, one theory has fascinated historians and the general public: the idea that the Roman Empire fell, at least in ...