This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...
Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal smelting during the Roman era ...
The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...
Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... extensive debate over the extent and length of the ...
The study focuses on the comparison between German regions that were part of the Roman Empire, protected by the famous Limes wall, and those that remained outside its influence. According to the ...