The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it. The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to ...

Imagine an advanced civilization filled with architectural wonders and military power that once spanned vast territories ...

Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his ...

Marcellinus describes Odoacer as “the king of the Goths” when he caused the Roman Empire to “perish.” This is a fabrication. Odoacer was not a Goth. Theoderic, however, was a Gothic king ...

The Roman Empire’s rise and fall, its culture and economy, ... Rome then turned its attention to the Greeks in the south of Italy, fighting a war with the Greek king Pyrrhus.

The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, survived until 1453, though many historians — Heather included — do not consider this to be part of the "true" Roman Empire.

Many things about the Roman Empire, even the Roman Empire trend itself, don’t qualify as “manly" in a modern sense. The viral question was actually first posed by a woman, Saskia Cort, on her ...

Few recognise the name Gallienus, but without him the Roman empire might have completely disintegrated in the years after 260 AD. This is the extraordinary story of one of Rome's darkest hours ...

The Roman Empire is one of the most renowned in history, and men on TikTok claim to think about regularly. But the realities of Roman life were not so romantic.