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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.

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.

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

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

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

During the period when the old Roman empire was at the height of its power — that is, in the days of Caesar Augustus — Dec. 25 was celebrated as ...

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