In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

The timeline of the failure of the Roman state is fairly well established and accepted, thanks to the Romans' love of writing. The circumstances contributing to its disintegration, however, have long ...

There’s an often-stated, invented fact that men think about sex every seven seconds. While psychologists have mostly disproven the fun factoid, TikTok may have helped prove that it’s not sex that men ...

Intent on securing peace and prosperity throughout the mighty Roman Empire, the wise diplomat, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, calls together the local governors from all over the Empire, after conquering ...

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of ChristianityAlice Roberts, Simon & Schuster, £22IN her latest book ...

With the growing fear that the United States may be entering a period of decline, as part of my effort to better understand our current situation, I recently expressed a desire to read Edward Gibbon’s ...

This video explores a little-known remnant of the Roman Empire that survived long after the fall of the Western Roman state.

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