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

Alternate history is fiction that imagines what would be different if some specific event was changed. A new alt-history ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of ...

From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict, a German-born academic, was one of ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

A multidisciplinary team has revealed new insight into what ... in the fall of one of the world’s greatest empires. “When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

The papacy has traditionally been held by cardinals, but exceptions exist. Historical trivia surrounding papal conclaves ...

But the man who succeeds Francis will preside over a religious body comprising nearly 18% of the ... the year 30. Roman Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the year ...