Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his ...

THE luxurious but tragedy-stricken villa where the first Roman emperor, Augustus, is believed to have died has been unearthed ...

Vindolanda may not be a name you’re familiar with, but you’ll probably have heard of the place it's found: it’s a fort on ...

Whatever date you pick for the fall of the Roman Empire—perhaps you’re a 476 traditionalist, or maybe you’re like me and you prefer the turbulent wave of downturns in the 530s and 540s—the ...

Imagine it is AD 476 and you have travelled to Constantinople to announce that the Roman Empire has just ended. You would be met with ridicule. The event conventionally marking the dissolution of Rome ...

Between 98-117 AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa reaching its maximum size of roughly 5 million square kilometers.

The coins date back to the Roman Imperial Period, which lasted from 31 BC to 476 AD, making the hoard at least 1,538 years old. The hoard was found with a ceramic vessel that was broken, records show.

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 ...

The researchers expanded their climate-conflict analysis to the entire Roman Empire for the period 350–476 CE.

Moreover, by expanding the climate-conflict analysis to the rest of the Roman Empire between 350 and 476 AD, the scientists detected a significant correlation between dry years and battles. Tatiana ...