This is the BBC at its most fundamentally BBC-ish — it is another instalment in its ongoing revival of the 1969 Kenneth Clark ...

How did the Holy Roman Empire come into being? This video traces its origins from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

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

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

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

It took Edward Gibbon 12 years from conception to publication to produce the first volume of The History of the Decline And ...

From wealth to technology, America is surging. So why do experts fear a Roman downfall could be on the horizon?

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, Luke Kemp smashes the Overton window out of its frame, then knocks down the whole wall around it. Quite a panorama comes into view as a ...