In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

This particular stone, set in place in 3 B.C. during the reign of Augustus, was once a perfect cylinder, set along the nearly 50 miles between ... during the Roman Empire. The map's origins ...

The cooling coincided with the onset of the Justinian Plague, which began in 541 CE and killed between 30 and 50 ... map of Europe at the time. "This suggests that the Late Antique Little Ice Age ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

A new study from Queen’s University found geological evidence in Iceland pointing to a climate crisis as a key factor in the Roman Empire’s ultimate demise. In the sixth century AD ...

Aerial View of Ancient Roman Ruins in Rome ... Notably, in 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts: the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. While the former had already fallen by the ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire ... between 540 and 800 AD. This period of intense ...

Archaeological find in Gloucester: 317 skeletons and Roman mosaics under old warehouse reveal 2,000 years of hidden British urban history.