The official date of the Roman empire’s end is generally considered to be 476 C.E. However, the empire did not succumb to a sudden collapse. It had been slowly declining over the course of several ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Roman emperors were renowned for their ability to project ... limiting freedoms for women and others? Will he hasten the fall of the American empire, or will he turn the tide?

As a scholar of classical antiquity and history of political thought, I believe I am well positioned to situate the current ...

Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...

For the next few centuries, republican ideals were largely sidelined. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD saw feudalism and monarchies spread across its former territories and ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...

SETH JONES, a senior vice president with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the ramifications for the United States and it’s military in the Pacific if China were to successfully ...

in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterizes it as marked by economic, intellectual, and ...

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ruled by a ...