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The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

The Germanic migrations were not a single invasion, but a slow-moving collapse driven by pressure, opportunity, and Roman weakness. Climate strain, population growth, and the arrival of the Huns ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

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.

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...