For centuries, historians have debated the reasons behind the collapse of the Roman Empire. Now, new research from Oxford and ...

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a population boom.

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly ...

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Long before the oil industry, cities along the Persian Gulf were trade hubs for horses, pearls, and aromatics ... in history from the University of Wisconsin in 2008 and is the author of two books, ...

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

Though both fall into the category of flatbread, pita and naan have vastly different origin stories, culinary uses, and ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

A two-day conference on Persian manuscripts brought out the history ... But there was an important role played by patronage as well as trade,” said Malini Roy of the British Library as she ...