The moments when four ancient worlds faced disaster are brought to life in an epic new series exploring Rome, Egypt, the ...

Watching the BBC's new history documentary Civilisations: Rise and Fall (BBC2, Mon, 9pm) brought to mind the great ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app TikTok, ...

Jonathon Norcross is a feature writer for Collider. He's also written for People, InsideHook, and Brooklyn Magazine, among other outlets. He co-produced the feature documentary Break the Game, which ...

A TikTok contrarian once made waves with a bold claim that the Roman Empire wasn’t real—something she later tried to walk back by saying her original video was just a “metaphor.” But her timelines and ...

While many date the collapse of the Roman Empire to the fifth century, in reality it didn't fall until AD 1453. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was a marvel of diversity, connectivity, and unchallenged hegemony. By the middle of the second century AD, imperial Rome ruled territory ...

Yet the term 'Holy Roman Empire' did not enter common use until the 13th Century with the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. In this video, we explore why this was the case, delving into the Empire's long ...

There are very few people who know more about the history of ancient Rome than Mike Duncan. The creator and host of the tremendously popular History of Rome podcast, which first aired between 2007 and ...