Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

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 ...