A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

This image shows the skull of the East African individual plus the oil lamp with the legionary eagle that he was buried with. Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on ...

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

Geneticists have shed new light on the effects of the Roman Empire on Southeast Europe. New DNA analysis has shown how the rise and fall of the empire influenced populations in the Balkans—a region of ...

“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient ...

Skull of an individual of East African ancestral origin found in Viminacium, with the oil lamp featuring an eagle found in his tomb. A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of ...