Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation — all these negatives helped bring down the once-mighty Roman Empire. But Rome needed centuries of bad leadership to collapse.

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

While the West is said to have “fallen” in 476, the Roman state endured—recentered on Constantinople under Emperor Zeno. This is the overlooked story of an empire that still ruled vast provinces, ...

The deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 is often portrayed as the dramatic end of Roman rule in the West. In reality, Italy remained Roman in administration, culture, and daily life—revealing a ...

The Seattle Mariners got closer to the World Series in 2025 than ever before, and Raleigh was the biggest reason why. By ...

The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.

A number of videos and images created by artificial intelligence that claim to accurately depict ancient Rome have been ...

The Dawnless Days mod for Total War Atilla overhauls the game to add in characters, settings, and armies from The Lord of the ...

A key reason for the explosive growth of the Early Church is that Christians lived by this ethical command. In the ancient ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...