A severe three-year drought helped bring about a "barbarian" invasion of Roman Britain in A.D. 367, a new study finds. In that year, Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's ...

The repeated invasions weakened further the central Roman government after a period of political crisis and weak rulers. In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the ...

First Evidence of Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britain Could Rewrite History of the Roman Empire Published Nov 29, 2017 at 11:25 AM EST Updated Nov 29, 2017 at 11:45 AM EST ...

The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

They found that the Iron Age skeletons contained just 0.3 to 2.9 micrograms of lead per gram, whereas the ones from the Roman empire had between 8 to 123 micrograms per gram.

Long before Rome ruled an empire, it had to dominate the Italian peninsula a process that took centuries of war, alliances, and calculated diplomacy. In Part 2 of the Roman Empire series, we break ...

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Burned Skeletons Are Rare Remains of Ancient Goth Invasion. The child and two adults lived in an ancient city in what's now Bulgaria before it was conquered by a Germanic army 1,700 years ago.