The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...

The Roman Empire gave its place to the Roman Catholic Church. Photo of the facade of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...

with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire Sonja Anderson Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say ... Fragments ...

Etruscan civilization had a major influence on the Roman Empire, including on its architecture, clothing, religious practices, and language. Credit: Onasill. CC BY 2.0/flickr Etruscan civilization ...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was thought to be a vast, untouched wilderness, inhabited only by scattered hunter-gatherer societies. But cutting-edge Lidar technology has just shattered that ...

Once a proud, 75-acre outpost 31 miles north of Rome, Falerii Novi was built and occupied in 241 B.C. and abandoned in 700 A.D. Though it’s been thoroughly buried over the course of time, new ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town ...

Dubbed the “Bride of the Desert,” he said “Palmyra revitalized the steppe and used to be a global tourist magnet.” The ancient city was the capital of an Arab client state of the Roman Empire that ...