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A warning: If you are going to find yourself on a crowded escalator or staircase at some point today and are prone…

When the Roman Empire disintegrated over the course of the fifth century, only half of it actually fell, the western…

No empire, from Sargon’s Akkadian Empire to the Soviet Union, lasts forever. There’s always an expiration date.

Decades before Romulus Augustulus was deposed in 476 AD and the Western Roman Empire officially went out of…

As the central institutions of the Roman Empire in the west crumbled and the provinces splintered off and went their…

When last we met the Goths, they had just sacked the city of Rome in 410 CE, the act for which this barbarian people…

Nearly 16 centuries after he lived and died, the name of Attila the Hun still carries overtones of wanton…

The fall of the Roman Empire can mean a lot of different things, depending on precisely where you’re talking about.…

Part of our shared culture is a basic, generally unspoken assumption that things are supposed to get better.…

If the Roman Empire was ever something you had to learn about in a high school or college history class, a major…

If you ever learned about the Roman Empire in history class, the barbarian Goths’ sack of Rome in 410 was probably…

The fall of the Roman Empire is one of the central events in human history, and chances are good that at some point…

Your high school or college history instructor probably spent some time on the fall of the Roman Empire. If you…

If you were ever forced to sit through a high school or college history class, you probably heard the story of the…

What was already a bad week for asshole soccer fans in Europe got worse yesterday, after video that appears to show…

Dennis Rodman is currently headed to the Vatican to try and arrange a meeting with the soon-to-be-elected Pope. This…

Three months after details emerged about Jim Rome's move from ESPN to CBS Sports Network, his new program Rome…