Byzantium was named after its legendary founder, Byzas, and quickly grew in importance due to its location, which controlled ...

The Roman polytheistic era is where most of the original names of ... and modern division campaigns rooted in the understanding that divided we fall. So I leave you with a challenge: overcome the ...

Their obsessive concern with belief is itself an inheritance from Christianity. In the ancient world Greco-Roman polytheism was not much concerned with what people believed, any more than Judaism was.

Yet, the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustulus on September 4, 476 marks the fall of the Western Roman Empire. So, what caused the downfall of the Roman Empire (which began in 27 BC)?

ANALYSIS: The country is facing many socio-political ills that many link to a spiritual vacuum but signs of a Catholic ...

This column’s title is borrowed from Edward Gibbons’ epic tome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," written in 1776. I ...

The Roman Empire was a force unlike any other ... from the rise of its republic to the height of its imperial power and its eventual decline. Discover the history of an empire that continues ...

Difficulty accessing health services may be a factor driving the decline, according to the study authors. More than half of England's sexual-health clinics were forced to close during the pandemic ...

Fall of Rome is all about faster, leaner, and more bitesize sessions. Set during the final decades of the Roman Empire, you take control of one of eight factions vying for control as the most ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When I served as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and ...

“But the decline has been pretty stark.” The research, published Tuesday by Gallup, collected data from people across more than 140 countries regarding how they think about their ...