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Video shows 1,000 Roman ships turned into fire, smoke, and death

In 468, the Roman Empire launched a massive naval expedition against the Vandals in North Africa. The plan was meant to restore Roman power, but it turned into one of the greatest disasters in ancient ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Souvenir Bowl May Have Commemorated an Ancient Roman Soldier’s Service at Hadrian’s Wall. It Was Discovered on a Spanish Farm 1,900 Years Later

The artifact is decorated with an illustration of the defensive fortification in northern England, but it was unearthed some ...
Maiorianus on MSN

How slavery disappeared from the Roman Empire

For centuries, slavery was one of the foundations of Roman society. Millions of enslaved people worked on farms, in mines, in ...
ZME Science

Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary Europeans After the Western Roman Empire Fell

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...
Nature

Roman Empire’s collapse created a genetic melting pot in Europe

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...
Greek Reporter

Hellenism and the Rise of Rome: How Greek Culture Shaped the Roman Empire

Hellenism and the rise of Rome were inseparable, with Greek language, and philosophy quietly building the foundation.
as.com

These are the reasons why the Roman Empire fell and how history could repeat itself

The Roman Empire’s immense power and longevity were a result of a multifaceted combination of military prowess, sophisticated political and administrative systems, robust economic foundations, and ...
EL PAÍS English

Genetics reveals that the fall of the Roman Empire shaped Europe’s population

Hundreds of individuals buried along Rome’s northern frontier challenge the idea of barbarian invasions: they had already ...
Ancient Origins

Genome Study Challenges Europe’s Origins Following the Roman Empire

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...