A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

The exact date for the Western Roman Empire's fall is up for debate ... the decline of Teotihuacan in Mexico; and the Eastern Roman Empire's Plague of Justinian. The new study's connection to those ...

Just to clarify, it's not like they all forgot their coats and dropped dead. Scientific evidence suggests that there may have been a little ice age around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, ...

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 ...

By the end of the third century the Roman Empire was split in two ... and created the Tetrarchy, dividing the Empire into Western and Eastern portions to ensure its survival.

Geological evidence found in Iceland indicates that the LALIA was more severe than previously thought, playing a key role in the Eastern Roman Empire's decline. The investigation focused on ...

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 ...

Little did he know that centuries later, European antiquarians would describe his remarkably durable Eastern Roman Empire using that old Greek name ... a variety of different objectives including ...

Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which stretched across modern-day Tunisia ... for his response to the ...

A massive shift in Roman residents' ancestry originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near ... which propelled a shift toward western European ancestry. Later, the rise of the Holy Roman Empire ...