The fall of the Roman Empire is usually blamed on barbarian invasions, economic decline, or political corruption. But what if there was another, less obvious reason? In this video we explore one of ...

By Will Dunham April 29 (Reuters) - The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, ...

Wed, March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM UTC “We started with a site so unpromising that no one had ever tried to excavate it,” Alessandro Launaro, the study’s author and Interamna Lirenas Project lead at the ...

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

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...

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 ...

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

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...