On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...

Most history books say that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. In that year, the young emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic general Odoacer. This event is often seen as the official ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

For centuries, slavery was one of the foundations of Roman society. Millions of enslaved people worked on farms, in mines, in ...

The artifact is decorated with an illustration of the defensive fortification in northern England, but it was unearthed some ...

Hellenism and the rise of Rome were inseparable, with Greek language, and philosophy quietly building the foundation.

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...

The Roman Empire’s immense power and longevity were a result of a multifaceted combination of military prowess, sophisticated political and administrative systems, robust economic foundations, and ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Hundreds of individuals buried along Rome’s northern frontier challenge the idea of barbarian invasions: they had already ...