Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

A new study has found new evidence to suggest that a little-known factor played an important role in the Eastern Roman Empire ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...

A new study has bolstered the theory that a dramatic climate shift known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) played a ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" ...