Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s severity.

BCE is the traditional date of the founding of Rome. What does archaeology reveal about when it was really founded?

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

According to a recent analysis of a 1,900-year-old papyrus from ancient Rome, taxes and tax evasion ... a historian and papyrologist of the Roman Empire with the Austrian Archaeological ...

VIENNA, Austria (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Archaeologists discovered a mass grave of over 100 Roman soldiers dating back to the ancient empire while ... grave from ancient Rome is extremely rare ...

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of historians, archaeologists, and lovers of ancient ... the Han Empire ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... well as the reach, of ancient Rome. He has created a ...