Explore the Roman Empire's history, from its founding to its lasting impact on law, language, architecture, and culture.

Why did the Western Roman Empire truly fall? For centuries, Rome stood as one of the most powerful and stable civilizations ...

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 ...

(via SciShow) There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had a point ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. The fact that it has since become recognized as the end of an epoch ...

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 ...

Given the current deep divide in America in everything, politics, economics and race—and everywhere, urban/rural, coastal/hinterland, and the wide-ranging lack of tolerance for diversity and treatment ...

Wed, March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM UTC “We started with a site so unpromising that no one had ever tried to excavate it,” Alessandro Launaro, the study’s author and Interamna Lirenas Project lead at the ...

Interamna Lirenas has turned out to be far more than a “backwater town” of the Roman Empire. According to a published study in Roman Urbanism in Italy, this central Italian town thrived well beyond ...