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The Roman Empire remains a cinematic staple, and here are the best movies to explore the era's scale and scandals.

Rome rose from a humble city-state to dominate the Mediterranean world, conquering vast territories and uniting them under ...

This southwestern Indiana gem along the Wabash River has been around since 1732, making it older than the United States, ...

The railroad company was set to start construction of a new passenger and freight depot to extend a full block along the east ...

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...

When the Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E., Europe was plunged into chaos as barbarian Germanic forces advanced south—or so the story goes. But a new study shows that some ...

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, its northern frontier became a melting pot of soldiers, farmers and ‘barbarians’, finds an analysis of ancient genomes from hundreds of burials in southern ...

By Will Dunham April 29 (Reuters) - The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in ...

Celebrate Star Wars Day with insights into the franchise's history, themes, and exciting upcoming projects. May the Fourth be ...