Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease ... which were made up of tens of thousands of ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long, the amulet contains a wafer-thin ...

See how much you really know about ancient Rome – and fill in the gaps... Tataryn/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 The Roman Empire is rightly heralded as perhaps the most influential empire in history, ...

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first believed to be a cellar, but was determined to be a tomb after the discovery ...

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...