A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter – who passed away May 8 – once said the fall of the Roman Empire was partially due ...

Gernon: 'the Late Antique Little Ice Age helped tip the balance when the Eastern Empire was stretched thin'.

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Another added, “The fall of the Roman Empire was not about race—it was the result of military overreach, economic decline, corruption, and invasions by various groups (like the Huns ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed a lack of diversity for the fall of the Roman Empire and claimed the United States could go the same way if they don’t embrace DEI. The former "ReidOut" host ...

Just to clarify, it's not like they all forgot their coats and dropped dead. Scientific evidence suggests that there may have been a little ice age around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, ...

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...