Researchers from Queen’s University analyzed unusual rocks from Greenland that had drifted to the west coast of Iceland as a ...

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

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire’s collapse.

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

Geological evidence found in Iceland indicates that the LALIA was more severe than previously thought, playing a key role in the Eastern Roman Empire's decline. The investigation focused on ...

Scientists link the 367 CE Barbarian invasion of Roman Britain to severe drought, revealing climate’s hidden role in the ...

But as the empire began its long decline—Rome would fall in the fifth century A.D.—the Via Aurelia began to disintegrate. In contrast, the Via Domitia, an even older Roman route, constructed ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

Mr. Bannon, influenced by Edward Gibbon’s 18th-century opus, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” came to a different conclusion. Rome disintegrated, he argues, because its moral ...

The Roman Empire scored 0.46 and Han China scored 0.48. On such a scale, the number "1" represents complete inequality. For comparison, they note that currently the Gini coefficient for the U.S ...