the Eastern Roman Empire would last for another 1,000 years before it too fell. At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain to Syria, on to to modern-day Turkey and Greece ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their ...

Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they are today in the US. The effect on the intelligence of ...

The Roman Empire brought together millions of people of different cultures, ethnicities and religions. But how did its ...

Study co-author Andrew Wilson, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University ... began during the Iron Age and reached a peak during the late 2nd Century BC at the height ...