After the fall of Rome, Europe fractured into a patchwork of tribes. Nomadic warriors, traders, and settlers reshaped borders ...

The "Fall of Rome" usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don't agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue ...

German author and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe once said about Rome, “Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” The city has a complex and rich history behind it. Once the capital of a sprawling ...

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse.

More than any other event in Western history the so-called “Decline and Fall of Rome” has been weaponized for centuries to promote a variety of social, religious, or ideological agendas. British ...

EJ Antoni is acting director for The Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and chief economist for the Center for Data Analysis. Peter St. Onge / @profstonge Peter ...