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"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...
Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...
Scientists link the 367 CE Barbarian invasion of Roman Britain to severe drought, revealing climate’s hidden role in the ...
partial-military rebellion and subsequent external invasion were able to overwhelm the weakened defences." The researchers expanded their climate-conflict analysis to the entire Roman Empire for ...
The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...
The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...
Nevertheless, the scientific analysis phase is still ongoing, with the expectation that the results will decisively contribute to redrawing the historical-military map of northeastern Austria in the ...
According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures ... Rome was a multiethnic, multilinguistic empire, happy to adopt wholesale an entire foreign religious pantheon.