Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, many believed the story of Rome had ended. But did it really? For ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

Genome evidence points to a slow blending of peoples — not a violent tide of invaders — that laid the foundations of modern ...

Hellenism and the rise of Rome were inseparable, with Greek language, and philosophy quietly building the foundation.

Hundreds of individuals buried along Rome’s northern frontier challenge the idea of barbarian invasions: they had already ...

Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.

Many of today's villages and towns in Central Europe trace their origins to settlements that emerged after the collapse of ...