Once a Roman trading hub on the Rhine, Augusta Raurica is Switzerland's largest archeological park and continue to produce ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

Located in the Occitanie region of southern France, Nîmes was often referred to as the “French Rome” due to its prosperous ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.

From Dorset to Derbyshire, Wales to Wester Ross, these strolls through some of the UK's loveliest landscapes are for all ages and abilities. Mike Unwin is your guide ...

triggering mass migrations that transformed the map of Europe at the time. Regarding the collapse of the Roman Empire, this climate change may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, said ...

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 ...

To find out how imperial structures contributed to levels of inequality, researchers writing in Nature Communications examined historical records from both empires at their peak (ca. 165 C.E. for the ...

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 ...