"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Just to clarify, it's not like they all forgot their coats and dropped dead. Scientific evidence suggests that there may have ...

Volcanic eruptions, and environmental collapse: natural disasters may have brought down one of history’s greatest empires.

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

What we call the metropolitan of Tel Aviv stretches between Ashdod and Netanya today. When we hit the 40 million people mark, ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Pope Francis offered respect. His successor must offer justice for slavery, colonisation, and enduring white supremacy.

The site, which likely once housed a roman cavalry unit, shows evidence of the respect soldiers had for their mounts.

A similar population collapse ... “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” came to a different conclusion. Rome disintegrated, he argues, because its moral fiber — the “Roman virtues ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...