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

The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire.

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...

But as the empire began its long decline—Rome would fall in the fifth century A.D ... located broken bits of ancient macadam and tried to protect a handful of 2,000-year-old stone walls ...

In 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts ... to longer-term structural decline, even though the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire came centuries after the ice age began.

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... long debated the role of climatic cooling in the fall of the Roman empire. “This new research strengthens the case that ...

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome, so too will it be for America — unless, they suggest, we learn the lessons of history. Whether they focus on the fall of ...

Ancient traders soon became skilled at finding their way around paying tariffs to Roman authorities. The empire’s borders were so long traders could sometimes avoid tariff check points ...

The Plague of Justinian, which affected the Eastern Roman Empire in the 540s ... to which the climate contributed to events such as the fall of Rome remains debated, there is growing evidence ...