Emperor Constantine (ca A.D. 280– 337) reigned over a major transition in the Roman Empire—and much more. His acceptance of Christianity and his establishment of an eastern capital city ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

According to one account, the people of Constantinople—which was by that point the capital of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire—died ... of corpses from the city’s streets.

The writer Sozomen, who lived in the fifth century A.D., claimed that Constantine's choice of location for his new city was inspired ... up as a second capital of the Roman Empire.

At its peak in the first century A.D., the Roman Empire ... capital up to the eighth-century Moorish occupation. But by the time of the Christian reconquest in the 12th century, the city was ...

The vast empire encompassed the entirety of the Mediterranean region with all roads leading to Rome, its sprawling capital. Known today as the Eternal City, Rome was the first ... Later, the rise of ...