Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...

After hundreds of years of colonial dominance in Europe, the western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E., weakened by internal strife and attacking Germanic tribes. The empire’s long reign and ...

Dead men do, in fact, tell tales. A group of researchers in an international program called HistoGenes that includes Stony Brook Associate Professor Krishna Veeramah recently published a study that ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...