Volcanic eruptions, and environmental collapse: natural disasters may have brought down one of history’s greatest empires.

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

Emperor Theodosius I dies. The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians ...

The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean ... Whether it's the western wall or the Temple itself, with all of its ...

It was a strong military city that prospered from trade. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. As the Eastern Roman Empire emerged after the ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire now stretched across Europe and the Middle East, from the borders of Scotland to southern Spain. It included North Africa, western and central Europe, and what is now Israel ...

Schisms between Eastern and Western Christianity notwithstanding ... them from the emperors and scribes of the eastern Roman Empire; the trappings of autocracy that the crusaders observed at ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors ... more than 170 when the entire lines of both the ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...