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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

America’s financial mismanagement has gotten so bad that some say our country’s decline is now inevitable, drawing parallels to the Roman Empire’s collapse. That comparison is unfair for two reasons.