Among the reasons for the Empire's failure was the leadership at the very top. From around 200-400 AD, the later Emperors frequently rose to and fell from office, with struggles for power becoming ...

Case studies, such as the site of the ancient city of Elusa in the north-western Negev desert in ... or economy in the 6th century eastern Roman Empire. In fact, there seems to have been an ...

Case studies, such as the site of the ancient city of Elusa in the north-western Negev desert in today’s Israel ... showed there was no decrease in population or economy in the 6th century eastern ...

Emperor Theodosius I dies. The Roman Empire is divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire, governed by his son Arcadius, and the Western Empire, by his son Honorius. Barbarian peoples—Swabians ...

But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire. Our research, which was ...

An international team of researchers, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has conducted an ...

Learn about the journey of the Greek language from its ancient origins to the vernacular of modern Greece through the lens of ...

Archaeologists recently concluded their excavation of an area in Luxembourg that contained a hoard of 141 ancient Roman coins ...

Arbogast was a Frank–the Germanic-speaking peoples who invaded the Western Roman Empire during the Fifth ... Eugenius primary opponent–Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I–eventually defeated ...