The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and military setbacks. Alexios Komnenos took power in 1081 CE and began an ...

When the How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire? meme went viral in 2023, it may have felt like a passing joke — until it became clear that people really do think about it all the time.

IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL narrative published in the 1876 “History of the Town of Peterborough,” Rev. John Hopkins Morison told ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

Our History editor-in-chief Amy Briggs can explain. How often do the men in your life think about the Roman Empire? Maybe more than you think. They may not wear costumes, like these Catalan actors ...

Thanks to modern-day literature and films—and the fact that ancient amphitheaters remain standing throughout the former Roman Empire, notably the Colosseum in Rome—warring gladiators are one ...

with thermal baths and heated floors New Research A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet June 13, 2025 12:58 p.m. Cool ...

Rye was intensively cultivated in northern Central Europe from the Roman period onward, not merely as a crop for poor soils but as part of a labor-intensive, well-manured agricultural system.

It took almost a decade to get them in a ring together for a second time. It took a little more than a year to get one of the best rivalries of the 21st century to a rubber match. Juan Francisco ...

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