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The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

The Germanic migrations were not a single invasion, but a slow-moving collapse driven by pressure, opportunity, and Roman weakness. Climate strain, population growth, and the arrival of the Huns ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

New research shows Roman gold and silver mining in the Balkans was central to imperial finances, coinage, and power for ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...