Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

It sounds awful to a modern person, but it seems the Romans did not complain about the smell of the ancient city that much.

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military camp. Their finds were plentiful but typical — until they uncovered a very ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern frontier ...

The Gough Map. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after ...

Transporting Ubisoft’s city-building and strategy series to the ancient era, Anno 117 preserves the fundamentals despite the period setting.

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests.

London is actually two cities, one built on top of the other. Before there was London, there was Londinium, an outpost of the Roman Empire that was founded right here in the heart of modern London ...

Reputedly founded by Genghis Khan in 1220, on a site where he had rallied his troops for battle with the Khwarazmian Empire (modern-day Iran and Afghanistan), the city was quickly built up by the ...

The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead disrupts cognitive development, particularly in children. Research, published ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.