Why empires fall is a question ... onto the entire Roman Empire. The use of large datasets from vast territories previously ruled by the Roman Empire presents a different scenario. Our findings reveal ...

Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

The arrogance and cynicism in the Senate is part and parcel of the decline, as much as the vain ... and James Mason as a cultivated and honorable Roman minister to Marcus Aurelius pretty much ...

Could lead pollution have played a pivotal role in the fall of the mighty Roman Empire? While political intrigue, barbarian invasions, and economic instability are often blamed for Rome's decline ...

Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the ...

ONE of the great literary works of the 18th century was Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I hope there’s a historian somewhere working on The Decline and Fall of the English ...