Geneticists have shed new light on the effects of the Roman Empire on Southeast Europe. New DNA analysis has shown how the rise and fall of the empire influenced populations in the Balkans—a region of ...

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A marble statue of Nero on loan from the Louvre in Paris is seen at the Landesmuseum in Germany in 2016. Harald Tittel/Picture ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire is a myth that oversimplifies history. Watch how the empire transitioned and survived, shaping Italy’s future for centuries.

A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

This image shows the skull of the East African individual plus the oil lamp with the legionary eagle that he was buried with. Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid sparked controversy after claiming that the Roman Empire collapsed due to a lack of diversity and warning that the United States could face a similar fate if it doesn’t ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as ...

Elon Musk’s latest post on X, formerly Twitter, has introduced a viral TikTok trend to a broader audience, prompting discussions among netizens about potential parallels to the decline and fall of the ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson once appeared to blame the fall of the Roman Empire on same-sex relations, a recently resurfaced audio clip shows. “Many historians, those who are objective, would ...

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