Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict, a German-born academic, was one of the oldest popes to take charge of the church from 2005 until his retirement ...

For decades, historians have debated to what extent climate cooling may have influenced the decline of the Roman Empire. This new study provides ... land following the melting of the ice sheets. The ...

The timeline makes sense in the context of historic texts, which describe battles between the Roman Empire and Germanic tribes toward the end of the first century. In 92 C.E, for instance ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... to three classifications, basic, moderate and luxury ...

We also learned a lot about visiting the Colosseum first-hand. I thought I would share some helpful ideas about choosing the ...

Both men were Syrian Nestorians, a denomination of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire, and had been ... improved with time, but the basic premise of the procedure ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, marked many firsts when he was elected as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic ...

(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 ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...