European genetic research offers surprising insights into who lived along the Roman frontier as the empire fell and Germanic ...

The end of Rome supposedly came as suddenly as thunder, relative to history’s long arc. The legions withdraw from their ...

Step into the blood-soaked arenas of Ancient Rome and uncover the true story of its gladiators. This animated documentary reveals who they were, how they trained, what they ate, and why the Roman ...

Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.

When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like. But how do we find this out? In recent years, computer-assisted reconstructions of the ...

It has become fashionable to compare the United States’ current disarray to that of ancient Rome. The parallels are easy to make — both are powerful empires, nominally operating by the rule of the ...