Those who are celebrating this anarchy should remember what followed the fall of Rome: the Dark Ages. It’s a lot easier to break things than it is to put them back together.

Of course, climate was not the sole cause of Rome’s fall, but this study adds weight to the idea that nature gave history a shove. The Roman Empire had already fractured by the 6th century.

For many Cambodians, however, rather than being relegated to history books, the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh and the toppling of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 remain alive and well, embedded in the Cambodian ...

While the extent to which the climate contributed to events such as the fall of Rome remains debated, there is growing evidence that climate changes shaped the fate of many civilisations.

The myth of Romulus and Remus has its origins in approximately the fourth century BC, and the specific date attributed to the founding of Rome was determined by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius ...

Now, 247 years later, the city will commemorate what has been dubbed the Battle of Fall River with a weekend-long living history event on the city's waterfront Saturday, May 31, and Sunday ...

Massimo Siragusa / Constrasto / Redux Climbing the Campidoglio, or Capitoline Hill, which has lured visitors to Rome since ... his monumental history, The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire.

Rome grew from a small city-state to one of the greatest empires in history, laying foundations in law, architecture, and politics that still resonate today. Moving forward to the age of ...

On March 13, 2013, the sky over Rome turned white for the election of Pope Francis. He became the 266th Pope on a list led by Saint Peter, who began his papacy around the year 30 A.D. He remained ...