"The Roman Empire was the biggest state western Eurasia has ever seen and, even though it looks big on the map, it was even bigger in practice because of communication speeds," Peter Heather ...

The Eastern Roman Empire (shown in yellow on the map above) maintained a guilty neutrality toward its Western counterpart, contributing to its eventual collapse.

It covers almost 600km of the whole Roman Empire’s Danube frontier. The property formed part of the much large frontier of the Roman Empire that encircled the Mediterranean Sea. The Danube Limes ...

Downfall. The decline and eventual “fall” of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE was not due to a single event, but rather a series of factors that gradually weakened it over centuries. The ...

A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims.. Between A.D. 536 and 547 ...

Visitors will find an extensive collection of Roman antiquities including mosaics, frescoes, and sculptures dating from the city's foundation in 16 B.C.E. through the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Adelasius Ebalchus has a decidedly Latin name for a man who lived in Switzerland around 700 A.D., centuries after the western Roman Empire fell apart. That choice of name was deliberate, explains ...