Crews starting work on a gas line in Bulgaria uncovered a late Roman-era settlement. The timing of abandonment implies that the settlement’s residents were driven out by a barbarian raid—possibly part ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study in Climatic Change reveals. Researchers argue ...

Aerial view of Abel Bet Maacah looking south-east (courtesy of the Tel Abel Beth Maacah excavations. Photo: Robert Mullins). Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site ...

Prof. Mark Horton examines a tiny carved dragon from a Roman military belt. Dragons were powerful symbols in the late Roman army, carried into battle as standards known as ‘draco.’ Could this rare ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.