A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman Empire
The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...
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Roman Empire's Air Pollution May Have Lowered The IQ of Europe
The results align with previous ice-core studies, which have also noted a spike in atmospheric lead at the peak of the Roman Empire, and archaeological finds, which have revealed high levels of ...
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What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?
It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward ...
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Emperor Hadrian Brings the World to Rome
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 ...
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Why the Roman Empire is suddenly everywhere online
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 ...
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Hilarious TikTok Trend Reveals How Often Men Think About the Roman Empire (Spoiler Alert: It’s a Lot!)
From 'Bachelor' alum Hannah Brown to 'Today' host Carson Daly, several big names have gotten in on the popular TikTok trend How often do you think about the Roman Empire? That's the viral question ...
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Watering Ancient Rome
What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their ...