What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...

The EU looks exceptionally compromised, any “Euro-tiger” image once projected by the EU in its prime has now vanished with US influence.

Venice’s origins, according to tradition, trace back to 421 AD, when Roman refugees fleeing invasions ... The collapse of the ...

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Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled ...

Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at the Roman Empire’s peak. But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

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Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question ... to collapse around 476 C.E. Caleb Finch, a neurobiologist ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson The 404 coins, including 44 from ...